Oil Spill in Alaska Rachel Maddow (and Gulf 1979)

deminks

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Oil Spill in Alaska Rachel Maddow (and Gulf 1979)

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Operation Sombrero

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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Cleita

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Wed May-26-10 10:53 PM
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1. This was stunning and it jogged my memory.

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napi21

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Wed May-26-10 11:03 PM
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2. I feel like such a dumbass now. I was 36 yo in 1979 & I

honestly don't remember that! I know I was working a lot, had 2 kids, aand all, but how could soething so erious tgat lasted for NINE MONTHS have hapened & I didn't hear abot it? I don't even remember anyone at work talking about it!

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Cleita

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Wed May-26-10 11:17 PM
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3. You didn't remember it because I'm certain they didn't run

it very much except on and off as a filler during those nine months. If you only watched a half-hour or hour of news a day, if you blinked you missed it. Maybe they did a few stories through that time with a lot of other distractions going on like the Iran hostage crisis. The only reason I remember is because I was a bartender much of that time and we had CNN on most of the time except when sports interrupted so a lot of these stories were run repeatedly through the hours, 24 hours a day. Not everybody was subjected to that much TV news as we were, who tended the bar in this particular place.

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napi21

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Wed May-26-10 11:36 PM
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4. I have to believe you're right. As I said, I worked a lot of hours,

but I wasn't unconciousd! I can't imagine anyone now who hasn't at least HEARD about this BP thing! I remember the Iran hostigare event, I remember Reagan running against Carter & that he won almost every State, but I never heard of this spill at all!

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Cleita

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Wed May-26-10 11:58 PM
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5. Demonizing Carter in favor of Reagan was the agenda by then.

Even so, CNN hadn't sold out completely, but it was the beginning of the end of our media as we knew it.

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DAMANgoldberg

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Thu May-27-10 01:46 AM
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8. One slight problem with that analysis...

CNN (Cable News Network) was not on the air until June 1, 1980. The first program was hosted by Dave Walker and Lois Hart. Ted Turner started and owned the network and the production values weren't at the time much better than the Bill Tush overnight news/comedy show on WTCG 17 (now TBS). There is nobody on air now at CNN that was there then.

OT ESPN started in 1979 and has 2 originals still on-air, Chris Berman and Bob Ley.
MTV started in 1980 and has nobody left on air and 4 of the 5 original VJ's are still alive.

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Cleita

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Thu May-27-10 09:50 AM
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11. You are right memories being what they are.

We got news feed on cable and eventually when CNN came on the air we had it on all the time. The place I worked at wanted either sports or news on. Since there was no ESPN back then, we had news on a lot. Also, back then broadcast stations did a lot more hours of news and hourly station breaks than today so we were exposed to a lot news. Now that you jogged my memory we did watch a lot of CNN back then probably after 1980 and it seemed in my mind it was before then. My bad and my apologies. It wasn't deliberate, just senior memory.

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alp227

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Thu May-27-10 12:52 AM
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6. Once again, Maddow gets 'em!

The Gulf got gooed in '79-80, and 30 years later gets insult to injury. BP remains clueless as always.

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billymayshere

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Thu May-27-10 01:32 AM
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7. +1 Wow

Is anyone gonna give this woman an award for something??? I love you Rachel! Holy shit I'm in love with a lesbian! That segment belongs in some sort of news hall of fame, it's a brand of journalism we have so desperately needed. Rachel, thank you for giving us all a voice among the talking heads.

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spicegal

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Thu May-27-10 05:17 AM
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9. I was in college at the time and don't remember.

But I never kept up with the news in college, didn't watch TV or have access to a newspapers, and of course there was no Internet. It is mind boggling that technology has advanced to the point of allowing us to drill at such deep depth, but our ability to manage a blow out and gigantic spill hasn't changed. It's shameful, and frankly we shouldn't be drilling at those depths if that's the case. Canada requires that relief wells be drilled at the same time, so that if something goes horribly wrong it doesn't take another 90 days of allowing oil to spill into the ocean before the problem can be fixed. Why don't we??

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tclambert

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Thu May-27-10 06:41 AM
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10. "Those who do not learn from history (and chant 'Drill, baby, drill') . . .

are doomed to repeat it." The Ixtoc oil spill eventually leaked an estimated 3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. Estimates for the Deep Horizon oil spill vary between 170,000 barrels (BP's estimate) to 2.4 million barrels so far.

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