[Paddlewise] A little context for the BP oil spill: It isn't the Apocalypse

I keep seeing the same stock photos of birds covered in oil from other 
disasters or from unidentified sources used in stories about the BP 
spill (location deliberately not provided because they aren't from the 
BP spill) and find this really annoying

For some perspective....

"The Gulf of Mexico spill is a calamity with enormous costs. 
Nevertheless, writes Ken Ringle, there are factors at work, observed in 
similar calamities years ago, that suggest the damage to the environment 
may be less than is widely feared, and reporters should be alert to them."

"Ken Ringle was a political and environmental reporter for much of his 
33 year career at The Washington Post"


http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00454 
<http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00454>


Jackie
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