this is an interesting side-bar: the efforts bp continues to go to in order to manage independent press access to the beaches off louisiana which are affected by the oil spill, with the full, um, co-operation of local "law enforcement" people:
?It?s BP?s Oil? | Mother Jones
just in case you may be under the mistaken impression that information about this situation is not being managed. o yeah--if you go into the media area from the "official" site linked above, you'll also get a nice glimpse of how infotainment is being streamed, who's doing it, for what ends and that sort of thing. it's good, if not happy-making, to know that in **any** situation of any size flows of information without prior shaping are now seen as being a Problem in this o-so-democratic united of states.
yeah.