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     COMMENTS: Oil Leak no Longer Fills Half the Newshole

The gusher of crude oil polluting the Gulf of Mexico was, no surprise, Story of the Day again, extending its streak to 21 straight weekdays. CBS and NBC led with marine research that confirmed the existence of massive submarine plumes of oil particles in addition to the surface contamination. ABC chose BP's tardy response to the economic crisis afflicting coastal communities yet the crisis coverage is moderating just a hair. For the first time in a week, the oil disaster accounted for less than half (44%--25 min out of 58) the three-network newshole. It was, after all, also Primary Election Day in twelve states.

ABC's David Muir came up with the latest estimate of BP's debt to the coastal communities of the Gulf of Mexico in compensation for their loss of livelihood. $14bn. He outlined two problems facing small businesses as they seek payment: first, the three-year time frame to establish what their normal income would have been--that period is abnormal because it includes the worst of the regional calamity caused by Hurricane Katrina; second, bureaucracy--"owners say they have been required to turn over a mountain of paperwork." CBS' Kelly Cobiella, too, picked up on BP's bureaucratic runaround confronting an artificial reef builder: "The first office lost his paperwork; the second told him he did not qualify; and the third told him to hire an accountant."

"BP has been all but absent here," ABC's Yunji de Nies observed from Magnolia Springs Ala. So the local volunteer fire department raised local money to rent nine barges and line of containment boom to protect the mouth of Weeks Bay from the encroaching oil. The do-it-yourself project is costing $6,000 a day. The town has three weeks before it runs out of money.

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