Oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig, but something else has been gushing too lately: BP’s public relations offensive. From controlling media access to the site, as Mac McClelland reported to us last week, to buying up search terms on the Web so that Google drives traffic to BP’s own website, the oil company seems determined to burnish its image even as its oil continues to cover the coasts. Mike Papantonio joins Laura Flanders on GritTV to discuss the ongoing PR offensive from BP–and whether we should buy any of it.
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