BP's Hired Guns Block Journalists From Talking to Disaster Workers

BP manages to create more bad PR in a surprising new way.

For some reason, BP continues to invest its resources in keeping journalists away from oil spill disaster sites. The tactic is clearly failing--we all have access to horrific pictures of dead animals and oily beaches--but BP still insists on bullying reporters. Of course, BP doesn't want to take the blame, which is why it has apparently hired mercenaries to shoo journalists away.

Scott Walker, a reporter with New Orleans news station...