AP Reporter Claims NYT Oil Spill Story ‘Patently False’

Posted in Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,World Maritime News on December 29, 2010

Associated Press oil spill reporter Harry Weber claims the New York Times story about the “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours” published Sunday December 26 is ‘patently false’.

The offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, taking the lives of 11 men and unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S

Their key assertions that the destruction of the Horizon ‘has escaped intense scrutiny’ and that the final hours are only now possible to piece together are patently false. A dozen different AP staffers as early as May have done numerous spot, enterprise and investigative reconstruct pieces on every element in the Times story, plus many they didn’t focus on.

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