CNN Seeking 'The Good Side of the Oil Spill'

[meegbear]

Huzzah, it's time for another risible media query from Help a Reporter Out, where flacks and desperate journalists connect. Put on your thinking caps: Can you come up with a bright side to this oil spill? Anyone?

1) Summary: The Good Side of the Oil Spill

Name: Gary Hewing (CNN)

Category: Biotech and Healthcare

Email: [e-mail]

Media Outlet: CNN

Deadline: 04:00 PM EST - 2 June

Query: Looking for pitches: The Good Side of the Oil Spill - if there is any.

Does this post count?

http://gawker.com/5552463/cnn-seeking-the-good-side-of-the-oil-spill

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. BP's shares have dropped - there ya go!

[dipsydoodle]

5. If they drop to their 25 cent nominal value

I think they'd help take down JP Morgan Chase who 27% of BP.

[tekisui]

2. The only good thing is that it has the potential for causing real change

in our energy production and consumption. It will, however require real leadership for that to happen.

[Junkdrawer]

3. Pipeline costs are being eliminated....

The wells can all just dump into the Gulf and refiners can just drop a suction hose....

[guitar man]

4. all I can think of

is that it seems to have shut Dick Cheney up for the time being.

[Junkdrawer]

6. All the costs of "Protecting the Wetlands" are gone....

along with the wetlands....

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. Our government is exposed as being lackeys for big oil

And, that now the average citizen can see firsthand what greed and corruption can do to their lives.

[Scuba]

9. +1 This is the best thing that will come of it.

[TheKentuckian]

11. +2 but of course some will gouge out their own eyes rather than see

[dipsydoodle]

14. lackeys for big oil

because your military cannot function without oil. No oil - no Iraq's. That's why your government withstands the unknown risks of drilling at such depths in the Gulf.

[Karenina]

8. Here's a BRIGHT SIDE about BP

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. This is from some Scottish folk about Exxon-Valdez, long time ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x470575

A$k your$elf, "WHY doe$n't the U.$. have THE$E $afeguard$???

[Brickbat]

10. And that, friends, is what you call a fair and balanced media. There's always another side. Always.

:eyes:

[jp11]

12. MSM gets to stalk a story and fawn over it like a crazy internet stalker w/o having to do much

work or even purport to be doing much because BP has been a stonewall dolling out news at the pace of a segway running out of power.

[wtmusic]

13. Idiots like Gary Hewing are outed. nt

[JCMach1]

15. You can dump your nuclear waste straight to the bottom now, it won't matter

no need for the Nevada facility

[Matariki]

16. BP assets seized and used toward immediate shift toward public renewable energy?

[Ganja Ninja]

17. Local boat owners won't have to worry about barnacles building up.

:shrug:

[dave123williams]

18. Here's what I wrote 'em:

Really. You've been assigned the task of trying to spin positive stories on this. Really.

OK:

The good side of the oil spill is that we get to see exactly what kind of corporate coddling whores the media have become.

Why don't you try covering the disaster, who's responsible, what we're going to do about it, and when. Perhaps you could deign to find out if this contemptible mess has made it in to the Atlantic Ocean yet, because that's what we're hearing here - that it's past the Keys already.

Maybe you could go so far as to even ask BP some tough questions about that.

That way, you might look like a journalist....instead of a schmuck.

[Fumesucker]

19. Duh!.. Match light shrimp.. n/t

[FiveGoodMen]

20. If there WERE a God, many at CNN would already have burst into flames.