During an interview with “GritTV’s”:http://www.grittv.org/ Laura Flanders, our “featured author”:https://guernicamag.com/blog/1629/a_guernica_reading_mac_mcclell/ in March, Mac McClelland, reports on BP’s fascist lockout of the press. McClelland, a human rights reporter for _Mother Jones_ magazine, was trying to report from the Gulf Coast on the local consequences, but BP locked her out. “It’s a public beach,” she said. “But it’s BP’s oil,” she was told.
Mac McClelland on GritTV: BP Blocking Workers from Wearing Respirators
In trying to report on the oil spill in the Gulf, McClelland recalls telling BP it's a public beach. "But it's BP's oil," she is told.
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