THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE NEWS CHOKED OFF TO PROTECT THE REGIME: And they were right! “Journalists struggling to document the impact of the oil rig explosion have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by BP and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. To some critics of the response effort by BP and the government, instances of news media being kept at bay are just another example of a broader problem of officials’ filtering what images of the spill the public sees.”