BP keeps having to revise its estimates of the amount of bilge its oil well in the Gulf Of Mexico is spewing out. They started off reckoning it was 42,000 gallons a day. Then it became 210,000.gallons. Now that amount seems to have rocketed to 2.9 million gallons a day. What is worse, they've been using a highly toxic dispersant (under the sea, so no-one will notice) to 'neutralise' the oil. Double the poison then.
Every media outlet, even the most responsible and scientific ones, talks about the dangers ONLY if and when the slick reaches the shores as if it didn't matter that the oceans and all the life in them and which make up most of the planet were being killed, as if the sea were some sort of heroic, inert carrier which saved the oil from doing any damage.
Media outlets
pour water on troubled oils,
misinformation.