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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/13-1

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“They just don’t know who they’re messing with”

Mother Jones
by Kate Sheppard

07/14/10

If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard about BP’s stranglehold on media access in the Gulf, which has included preventing reporters from visting oil-soaked public beaches and barring its spill cleanup workers from talking to the press. Now, one of BP’s ex-media enforcers is speaking out. Former BP contractor Adam Dillon went public last Friday, telling a local news station in New Orleans that he was fed up with BP’s handling of the spill response, not least of all its information clampdown. In an interview with Mother Jones this week, Dillon, who claims he was fired for raising concerns about the cleanup with his bosses, elaborated on his experiences in the Gulf and vented his frustrations with BP...

http://tinyurl.com/2wdzc9c


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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BP's Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
http://action.healthygulf.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4314



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