In the Old Days before the WaPo decided to become an upscale Washington Times and Rupert Murdoch single-handedly LCD'd the MSM, there were major oil spills, too. They caused lots of trouble and cost lots of money to clean up and many homes and businesses were ruined because the press didn't use its powers correctly.
In those impoverished days, the press wrote sad, negative stories about dead birds and destroyed eco-systems and polluted water and poisoned beaches and shit like that. They didn't realize, as our post-modern corporate press does, that the only reason those bad things happened was because the unenlightened press of the time wrote about them.
The post-modern corporate press has ended all that and, in the process, proved their case by arranging nothing less than a Grandstand Miracle in the Gulf. Unlike every other oil spill in history - and all of them were less serious than the Gulf spill, remember - this one has magically been dispersed, captured and cleaned up with very little effort, time, or money, simply by the post-modern press expedient of refusing to report bad news and trusting BPee and its US govt auxiliary for all its information.
The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated - and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.
A government report finds that about 26 percent of the oil released from BP's runaway well is still in the water or onshore in a form that could, in principle, cause new problems. But most is light sheen at the ocean surface or in a dispersed form below the surface, and federal scientists believe that it is breaking down rapidly in both places.
That "government report" was compiled by the National Incident Command of the Dept of Energy, so of course there can be no question of its being biased in favor of energy corporations. And even if there is reason to question it, our post-modern press knows better than to actually do it.
See how much better things turn out when we concentrate on reporting only good news? This is the picture that accompanied the NYT story, and you will note that all those birds look happy and not one of them is covered in oil.
See? Problem solved, case closed.
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