Reply #17: No independent reporting means questionable information.

[cornermouse]

Embedding reporters within the borders of the U.S.?
Encounter between unembedded CBS reporters and a Coast Guard boat and BP employees in which BP threatened the CBS reporters with arrest.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/19/bp-coast-guard-officers-b_n_581779.html
When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.

"This is BP's rules, it's not ours," someone aboard the boat said. Coast Guard officials told CBS that they're looking into it.

And your post has ...what... to do with I said? Right. Exactly nothing.