Covering the spill: Media must have unrestricted ability to cover the oil spill's coastal damage | Editorial | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Covering the spill: Media must have unrestricted ability to cover the oil spill's coastal damage | Editorial | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle:

"One of the most disturbing aspects of British Petroleum's handling of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent continuing oil spill is the company's ham-handed attempts to restrict media coverage. BP officials seem to be more adept at cutting off information flows than oil leaks.
It took pressure from Congress to get BP to stream live images of the underwater leak on a website accessible to the public. Those images had been available at the White House for weeks."