COMMENTS: Oil Disaster Shifts Inside the Beltway
The Gulf Coast oil disaster moved inside the Beltway on the 26th straight weekday on which it has been Story of the Day. All three newscasts filed reports both from their White House correspondent and from their Congressional correspondent. On Capitol Hill, executives from Big Oil testified about the safety of their deepwater drilling operations. At the White House, President Barack Obama prepared for a primetime TV address to the nation from the Oval Office. ABC led from the Hill; CBS led from the White House. NBC, with substitute anchor Lester Holt, led from Louisiana, where BP plans to siphon off yet more crude from its seabed gusher.
White House aides made sure that the key points of the President's address were disseminated in advance via the networks' three correspondents: Jake Tapper at ABC, Savannah Guthrie at NBC, and Chip Reid (no link) at CBS. BP will be asked to establish an independently-administered escrow fund to compensate those harmed by the pollution. The Gulf Coast ecosystem will be restored to its condition before Hurricane Katrina. Congress will be pressed to pass energy legislation to convert from fossil fuels to renewables.
Saying it does not make it so.
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