BP, in a move destined to go down as one of the bestest public relations moves ever, has apparently hired a private security company to help to keep pesky reporters from covering the unfolding catastrophe on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. The report comes via New Orleans’ 6WDSU reporter Scott Walker, who last week ran into representatives of a “Talon Security” trying to block him from interviewing cleanup workers on a local beach.
Recent Posts
- Police Brutality is a Fantastic Fundraising Opportunity, Though
- Nothing is Going to Get Better From the Killings of Brown and Garner
- Be Clear About Confiscating Guns
- Speaking Ill of the Dead
- Russian Says It's Giving Assad Anti-Aircraft Missiles
- Some Things to Understand About Guns and Gun Control in America
- No Platinum Coin - Now, Let's Get to the Substance
- Shotgun Divorces
- Remembrance
- When Tragedy Strikes, People Say Stupid Things: The "Let's Confiscate Guns" Edition
Recent Comments
- Porn Video Anal on Offering Opportunity at low rates
- marchmachel on Bettie Page Dead at 85
- Mithras on No Platinum Coin - Now, Let's Get to the Substance
- upyernoz on No Platinum Coin - Now, Let's Get to the Substance
- kırışıklık kremi on Philly's Stadium Zone
- kırışıklık kremi on No Platinum Coin - Now, Let's Get to the Substance
- Alan on Shotgun Divorces
- upyernoz on When Tragedy Strikes, People Say Stupid Things: The "Let's Confiscate Guns" Edition
- Alan on When Tragedy Strikes, People Say Stupid Things: The "Let's Confiscate Guns" Edition
- Adrian on I Always Have My Powerful, Black, Ersatz Penis With Me, Just in Case
Categories
- Chemicals (16)
- Current Affairs (4)
- Film (1)
- Food and Drink (173)
- Fucking and related (61)
- Games (1)
- Law-talking guy (220)
- Music (14)
- Piteous (284)
- Political (1056)
- Religion (2)
- Republican reprehensibilities (315)
- Science (2)
- Stupid people (401)
- Travel (19)
- War (299)
- Web/Tech (114)
- Weblogs (1)
- Whatever (438)
- Words, words, words (72)
December 2014
« Local Programming: Drinking Liberally Center City Tonight Upstairs @ Jose Pistola's | Main | Should Have Made Hope and Change Bingo Cards »
June 15, 2010
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
The comments to this entry are closed.
Read these daily:
- If I Ran the Zoo
- Whiskey Fire
- Jon Swift
- Alicublog
- Atrios
- Billmon
- Bitch. Ph.D.
- Crooks and Liars
- Crosblog
- Feminists Against Censorship
- Hullabaloo
- Josh Marshall
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Low Grade Panic
- Norbizness
- Oliver Willis
- Orcinus
- pesky'apostrophe
- Prometheus 6
- Sadly, No!
- Slacktivist
- TBOGG
- The Good Roger Ailes
- The Poor Man
- War and Piece
- World O' Crap
- ZenPundit
Philadelphia Bloggers
- Zoe Strauss
- Will Bunch
- What the hell, Philly?
- unwilling self-negation
- Uncle Horn Head
- Uncle Blodge's Bar and Grill
- Truth, Justice & Peace
- Transcending Gender
- Throwing Things
- the smedley log
- The Long Cut
- The Go Fish
- The Disenchanted Forest
- The Daily Jive
- The BM Rant
- The Blog Brief
- The Ballad of Yoko
- The Ballad of Yoko
- The American Journal of Bioethics Editors Blog
- Tattered Coat
- Sushi
- Steve Silver
- State Rep. Mark B. Cohen
- Starting a Landslide in My Ego
- Square Peg
- Snark Spot
- Skaroffblog
- She Flies With Her Own Wings
- Sarcasmo's Corner
- Sally Hemings in Paris
- Ryeguy
- rubber hose
- Rowhouse Logic
- River Tyde
- Revelling
- quotidian
- Pound for Pound
- Pizza Dreaming
- Pixel Sphinx
- Phillyist
- Phillybits
- Philly Weather Blog
- Philly Metroblog
- Philly LunchBox
- Philly Future
- Philly Food Guys
- Philebrity
- Philadelphia Will Do
- Pesky Apostrophe'
- Pax Romano
- Paradox1x
- Painting Jessica
- Paddling to New Zealand
- Overheard in Philly
- overflow
- Ordinary Language
- Operated Boy
- One Day I'm Gonna Grow Wings
- Oleg
- Noteworthy
- Noblesse Oblog
- News & Views From Philadelphia
- My Philadelphia Story
- Michele Grant
- Messy & Picky
- Mere Cat
- Malcolm X Park
- Looking At The Stars
- Lisa Rocci
- Life in the Pink
- Lenny's Zlog
- Language Log
- Kicking Puppies
- Jim MacMillan
- Jamie Jamison On Technology
- It's My Country, Too
- Incredible Panic Rules
- Incredible Meat Deals
- iFlipFlop
- Happy Pills
- Greenadelphia!
- Good Grief!
- God Told Me To:
- Glomarization
- gideon's (other) bible
- Geckoblue (okay, West Chester, close enough)
- From Pine View Farm
- Frank
- Field Negro
- Everything But The Blog
- EllipticBlog
- Duh
- duh
- Drexel Student Law Blog
- Drexel Dems
- Dragonball Yee
- Diary of a Peculiar Soul
- Chef Wendy Mae
- Cheap Holiday
- Catalyst
- Brendan Calling
- Blue Room Lounge
- Blog Brief
- Blankbaby
- Blackmail is My Life
- Ben Garvey
- Banana Slug
- Avocado8
- Automotive Acne (Productions)
- Area 151
- Area 151
- Apartment 2024
- andipantz
- America's Hometown
- All Spin Zone
- ACLU of Pennsylvania
- A Smoke-Filled Room
- A Myth of a Shu
- A Life Less Convenient
- a cup of ambition
- 14th Windiest State
Talon Security?
Didn't Jimmy-Jeff Gannon-Guckert used to work for them?
Posted by: willf | June 16, 2010 at 04:59 AM