NO PULITZER: You’ve got to hand it to the Texans running Plains All American Pipeline. They not only besmirched our beaches but seem to be doing their best to sneakily manipulate the resulting news coverage.
If Plains were a newspaper, it would never win a Pulitzer by trying to put a positive spin on an ecological mess. Big Oil meets Big Brother meets Brave New World.
In a secret memo leaked to The Santa Barbara Independent, Plains, along with representatives of the U.S. EPA, Coast Guard, California Fish & Wildlife, and Santa Barbara County’s Office of Emergency Management signed off approving the targeting of six journalists and invited them to a private press conference in apparent hopes of generating positive coverage of the May 19 Refugio Oil Spill.