Cards on the table. This post is not about the oil fiasco per se. It is not a defense of BP. It is a question about fair and balanced media coverage. About lynch mob mentality. About bias.
There is no doubt in my mind – or any body else’s for that matter – that the gulf disaster is – well – actually – there are no words – and not for me to add to the commentary here. Nuff said.
I am English. I live in America. BP is a multi-National. And ‘British Petroleum’ (as Mr. Obama keeps calling the company) hasn’t been their name for 12 years. I guess partly because the ‘British’ bit was past its ‘use by date’. (Side point – 39% of the BP business is actually US owned.)
Read the main stream press, listen to the mainstream media all you here is that ‘BP did this’ – ‘BP did that’ -’when will BP pay us’ – ‘What is BP going to do’ ….. all good questions.
BUT I am rather wondering about that ‘noise’.
Last time I looked BP, Transocean and Halliburton (see note 1 at bottom of page on the click through) were all in this together.
That is you have contractors, sub contractors – and the usual collection of outsourced messes that make up today’s world. We know they are all going to blame one another – we also know that the buck stops at BP. One of the reasons we know that is that right at the very beginning Tony Hayward declared ‘mea culpa’. And yes of course – they are. But where is everyone else?
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