We've been hearing bits of information about this for weeks. Now that ANDERSON COOPER is reporting it, maybe it will have legs. There's a reason for it. It has to do with controlling the story, and the news and the press. It's why he wants control of the internet. This is truly disturbing. More at Red State:
This is NOT THE FIRST TIME [Obama] has shut out the media’s access to a news event.. First he excludes and evades — repeatedly, then he shuts out media access, and now he’s passed enforceable law.
Under threat of being charged with a Class D Felony and a $40,000 fine, journalists, bloggers, and photographers cannot come within 65 feet of response vessels working the BP spill or booms floating in the Gulf or laying on beaches.
This 65 foot “exclusion zone” had been reduced from 300 feet and is yet another restriction placed on photographers and reporters. At the end of May, the FAA and Coast Guard would not allow private charter planes carrying media to fly below 3,000 feet to better document the BP disaster.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Thursday that ["the [65 foot "exclusion zone"] order was a Coast Guard-wide directive from the top.”
CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports on the impact this will have on holding the federal government accountable — by documenting and ensuring timely responses to boom removal, animal rescue and just getting the local’s version of the BP story out:
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