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NBC again used that wheel of correspondents--from Kerry Sanders to Anne Thompson to Mark Potter to Tom Costello on Capitol Hill--to kick off its newscast, the wheel that Tyndall Report admired last week. Costello covered Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's testimony on the size of the leak--12K barrels a day or 25K? "Still not clear," was how he put it. CBS' Sharyl Attkisson, rightly, congratulated her own network for using the Freedom of Information Act to push for an accurate measurement of the size of the leak. It was a FOIA request that delivered the first live videostream of the seabed gusher: "BP is still holding on to a lot of archived video as well as a log showing exactly what it is they do have." Because of BP's footdragging "the official answer to how big the leak is keeps getting put off," Attkisson charged.
As for that undersea plume, Attkisson was contemptuous of the corporation: BP "appears to be in a perpetual state of denial. They insist all the oil is on the top." She discovered a proposal five weeks ago to use sonar from USNavy undersea buoys to track the plume to give early warning to coastal communities. The Coast Guard rejected the scheme because it was vetoed by BP: "The spill is being totally funded by BP," read a USCG memo, "and anything that gets executed must go through them."
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