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News May 17th 2010

Read and produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Chris Hanna, Sarah Deshaies, Jose Espinoza and Jonathan Moore.


Canadian News

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Monday Updates on the Spill

It's a spectacular May day in Montreal and coincidently sunlight appears to be breaking through the MSM too. At least so far as the BP gusher in the Gulf story is conncerned.

Last night on CBS's 60 Minutes, in the best tradition of this program, they dug into all aspects of the spew, reporting that approximately a Valdez worth of oil has been gushing in the Gulf waters each week since the April 20 explosion, and a lot of people got to hear for perhaps the first time the extent of the failures, greed and hubris that led to this collossal disaster. An example of the carelessness as reported last night:


BP and a Compliant Media

Apparently no amount of facts or reports to the contrary will change or make the various medias disregard BP's estimate that 210,000 gallons per day are being spilled into the Gulf. Almost every news site I visited yesterday had the lying BP estimate - the singular exception was the NYT's article linked below. Stenography would seem to be the order of the day, and newspaper companies ask why more people don't subscribe.


Latest on Oil Spill in the Gulf

There's no way for me to begin that doesn't include the day's biggest butthole: Tony Hayward, the BP CEO who said today of the oil spewing into the Gulf, "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean.


More Friday News Stories

I was wrong. I never thought the Conservatives had any intention of making a deal with the opposition on the release of the heavily redacted documents relating to torture of Afghan detainees and were instead involved in a game of chicken with what appears to be a chicken-hearted opposition. Today however all the parties involved arrived at a deal:


News May 14th 2010

News Read by Erica Fisher. Produced by Drew Pascoe.

Stories by Erica Fisher, Jose Espinoza, and Jonathan Moore.


News May 12th 2010

Read and produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Nicholas Fiscina, Matthew Phelps and Gareth Sloan.


News May 10th 2010

Read and produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Chris Hanna, Sarah Deshaies, Jose Espinoza and Emily Brass.


News May 7th, 2010

News Produced and Read by the ever curious Drew Pascoe

 

Stories written by Alina Gotcherian, Jonothan Moore, Jose Espinoza.


News May 5th 2010

Read and produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Nicholas Fiscina, Matthew Phelps and Gareth Sloan.


News May 3rd 2010

Read by Omar Husain.

Produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Nicholas Fiscina, Chris Hanna, Sarah Deshaies and Jose Espinoza.


News April 30th 2010

Read by Erica Fisher.

Produced by Nicholas Fiscina.

Stories written by Erica Fisher, Jonathan Moore and Jose Espinoza.


News April 28th 2010

Read and Produced by Lachlan Fletcher.

Stories written by David Adelman and Lachlan Fletcher.


News April 26th 2010

News produced and read by Drew Pascoe

 

Stories by Jose Espinoza, Chris Hannah, Emily Brass, Sarah Deshaies


News April 23rd 2010

News Produced by Drew Pascoe, Read by Erica Fisher

 

Stories by Alina Gotcherian. Jonathan Moore, and Jose Espinoza


News April 21st 2010

Produced by Lachlan.

 

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News April 19th 2010

Read and Produced by Gareth Sloan.

Stories by Chris Hanna, Emily Brass, Jose Espinoza and Sarah Deshaies.


News April 16th 2010

News read by Bradley Pascoe

Produced by Drew Pasoce

Stories written by Emily Brass, Alina Gotcherian, and Bradley Pascoe


News April 14th 2010

Read and produced by Gareth Sloan.

Stories by David Adleman, Sophia Loffreda and Matthew Phelps.


News April 12th 2010

Read and Produced by Gareth Sloan.

Stories by Chris Hanna, Jose Espinoza, Sarah Deshaies, and Emily Brass.


News April 9th 2010

Stories read by Erica Fisher

News produced by Drew Pascoe

Stories written by Jonathan Moore, Jose Espinoza, Coratine Riviore


News April 7th 2010

Read and produced by Gareth Sloan.

Stories by David Adleman, Matthew Phelps and Gareth Sloan.


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