BP Oil Spill Session

One of the sessions that I went to was about the BP oil spill and how the
media covered it. People from CNN, the New York Times and Poynter sat on the
panel and discussed how each of their outlets covered and is covering the spill and
its effects.

This session was interesting to me not only because of the huge ramifications
of the spill, but also because while I was taking a class in London this summer, we
did a content analysis over the coverage of the spill in America media versus British
media.

I thought it was interesting how each media outlet represented at the panel
covered the spill differently. Though the spill is cleaned up, there are still going to be
economic and environmental effects for years to come. The panel discussed how,
though the oil is out of the water, there is still a story there and it still needs to be
covered because the public needs to know.