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All this fuss and bother about The Runaway General hardly meant that the Gulf of Mexico had disappeared from the networks' agenda. ABC's Sharyn Alfonsi and CBS' Mark Strassmann both covered the decision by a federal judge to overturn the six-month ban on deepwater exploration for new oil. Alfonsi reported that 33 rigs can now go back to work; Strassmann estimated that each rig provides work for between 900 and 1,400 people. Louisiana's $70bn oil industry, he calculated, generates five times the income of its fishery.
On Monday, when CBS anchor Katie Couric made her weekly visit to the Gulf Coast, she brought us the helicopter view of the flotilla of ships and derricks on the high seas a mile above the site of the gushing wellhead. Now NBC's Kerry Sanders brings us an impressive sea level shot of the operation to drill two relief wells and to burn the oil that is siphoned off to the surface.
Rounding out the oil update, CBS' Sharyl Attkisson gave us the heads up on soon-to-be-released research into the size of the submarine plumes of oil that BP insists do not exist. And check out Anne Thompson's heartbreaking portrayal of the despair of a helpless Cambodian-American shrimper in Venice La on NBC.
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