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Tony Hayward, Former BP CEO, Addresses Cambridge Union, Says More Dumb Things

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Last night, former BP CEO Tony Hayward addressed the students of Cambridge University at the Cambridge Union Society, about that whole "destroying the...

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Hayward: BP Was Unprepared For 'Media Scrutiny'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former BP CEO Tony Hayward should really think about heeding advice to "really just stop talking." But talk he has, and so we've all learned a whole bunch of new things about the guy who's really, really sorry about that whole catastrophic oil gusher thingy. For instance, we now know that if he had to do it all over again, he would have totally gone yachting, and, like all yachtsmen, he only took to the high seas as a means of tamping down all of the anger he was feeling.

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In Gulf Of Mexico, 'They Are Literally Shrimping In Oil'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this week, we made note of BP CEO Bob Dudley's complaint that the media, in their routine efforts to document the truth about what was happeni...

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Bob Dudley, BP CEO, Blames Media For Creating "Climate Of Fear" In Gulf

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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When it comes to building climates of fear, nothing beats the way BP inhibited the work of reporters with the full force of spooky clampdown tactics.

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Reversal of Coverage: Coast Guard Drops 65 Foot Rule for Media

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

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It just became far easier for press to get to the BP response site in Grand Isle. This was our last NewOrleans.com attempt. National Incident Command...

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Adam Dillon, BP Contractor Who Once Blocked A Local Reporter, Became A Whistleblower (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Down in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is said to be "pleased" with the effort thus far to recap the oil leak, an effort that they took up in earnest over the...

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Oil Spill Media Access: BP Officials Continue To Block Reporters (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the fact that National Incident Commander Thad Allen and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles have publicly stipulated that the media is to...

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ABC Reporter Hassled By BP: Days After Thad Allen Directed Open Access, Media Clampdown Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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While reporters in the Gulf of Mexico may want to do more to protect themselves from the risks involved in touching and swimming around in the oil, the larger battle they are fighting as they cover the oil spill crisis is one of access.

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The Winds of Change

Ted Danson | Posted 05.25.2011

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While images of oiled wildlife and beaches hit us in the gut there's another reason why it's time to stop drilling for oil in our oceans. It might not have a face or feathers, but it's just as important.

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BP Media Clampdown: No Photos Of Dead Animals, Please

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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When we last left reporter Mac McClelland, she was in the Gulf Coast region, caught up in the surreal tangle of media roadblocks that were being erected by British Petroleum to keep reporters at bay. How have things done since then?

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Gulf Oil Spill: Media Access 'Slowly Being Strangled Off'

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Media organizations say they are being allowed only limited access to areas impacted by the Gulf oil spill through restrictions on...

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BP Better At Stemming Journalists Than Oil Wells

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If at some point in the future, an undersea fissure opens up and releases a cloudy, underwater gush of journalism that threatens to toxify America's coastal wetlands, you know who I am going to call to solve the crisis? BP.

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