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Updated 5:20pm ETBP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles issued this letter on media access Wednesday. In the statement, Suttles says BP fully supports and defends all individuals rights to share their personal thoughts and experiences with journalists if they so choose.Posted 1:30pm ETI recently returned to my home base of San Francisco from Louisiana after a week covering the oil spill for the NewsHour. It was a fascinating and frustrating week. But trying to find out what was going on was sometimes impossible. The best example occurred on the first day.Producer Joanne Elgart Jennings, cameraman Brian Gill and I were in Venice, La., stanley cup that tiny outpost on the Gulf, more than adidas campus two hours ; drive south of New Orleans. We had heard BP was setting up a health center after several workers had become ill, possibly from oil fumes. We thought that might make a good story. Someone pointed us to a building, where we were told we couldn ;t get in without a pass. Well, where could we get a pass Someone pointed to another building. When we got there, they kicked us out politely and gave me a BP pen. It was more than 90 degrees outside, and one of the folks who had denied us access did give us some cold bottled water, but no acc yeezy ess. I still don ;t know what was going on in that building. And nobody would talk to us either and not just at the supposed medical site. Wherever we went, the word seemed to be out: don ;t talk |
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