Media blackout in GOM oil spill?

[mike3]

Hi.

I saw this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAqfxMrato&feature=related

Has anyone here been down there and who could verify or debunk these claims? If this is true it's really serious.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

What oil spill???

 

[slingblade]

Well, I can tell the voice is computer generated.

It can't be a blackout, as I can find fresh stories on the situation daily. If it were a blackout, there'd be no stories.

I think it's fear-mongering.

 

[Nosi]

Well, I can tell the voice is computer generated.

It can't be a blackout, as I can find fresh stories on the situation daily. If it were a blackout, there'd be no stories.

I think it's fear-mongering.

From the few moments I could bear to watch, the narrator appears to claim the stories generated are bogus. As in fake. Filler.

 

[mike3]

Well, I can tell the voice is computer generated.

It can't be a blackout, as I can find fresh stories on the situation daily. If it were a blackout, there'd be no stories.

I think it's fear-mongering.

To me it sounded like a real voice of someone talking on a phone, stutters and all. I've heard CG stuff before, unless this is some really new state-of-the-art high-end voice synthesizing program that was used. What was it about it that made you think it was CG?

I guess what I'm looking for here, though, is something from someone else who's actually been down there or is down there, who could follow up on it or who'd have noticed something like this if it was really happening. Maybe even get some pictures of the stuff if it's really there. If it's not, of course, then no need to give pictures. But otherwise, we're just theorizing about this one story, which is pure anecdote and as we all know (or I sure hope), anecdotes aren't very useful.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I guess what I'm looking for here, though, is something from someone else who's actually been down there or is down there, who could follow up on it or who'd have noticed something like this if it was really happening. Maybe even get some pictures of the stuff if it's really there. If it's not, of course, then no need to give pictures. But otherwise, we're just theorizing about this one story, which is pure anecdote and as we all know (or I sure hope), anecdotes aren't very useful.

Pictures of what "stuff"?

 

[mike3]

Pictures of what "stuff"?

The guards, cops, choppers flying overhead, just any part of the "circus" claimed to be down there keeping people out. If that is not possible, then why not an audio recording taken of the area so we can hear it? If _that_ is not possible, then even just hearing confirmation from someone else here (who I'd tend to trust a little more than some guy mentioned in some random video) would be interesting, though not as good, of course, as having actual recordings of some kind.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

The guards, cops, choppers flying overhead, just any part of the "circus" claimed to be down there keeping people out. If that is not possible, then why not an audio recording taken of the area so we can hear it? If _that_ is not possible, then even just hearing confirmation from someone else here (who I'd tend to trust a little more than some guy mentioned in some random video) would be interesting, though not as good, of course, as having actual recordings of some kind.

Keeping what people out of where?

 

[slingblade]

To me it sounded like a real voice of someone talking on a phone, stutters and all. I've heard CG stuff before, unless this is some really new state-of-the-art high-end voice synthesizing program that was used. What was it about it that made you think it was CG?

Something about the pronunciation that was very much computer generated, not human. Better than the usual sort, much better, but I could still tell it wasn't a human voice. It wasn't any stuttering that clued me.

"Documeentary reports." "The seetuation is most dire." I heard the speaker take a breath, so that doesn't go along with my CG notion, but the emphasis on certain words is how a computer would enunciate the words, not a person. There's something hinky about it...the show host seems to have a very strange way of speaking. I suppose it's a person, but he speaks very oddly.

I guess what I'm looking for here, though, is something from someone else who's actually been down there or is down there, who could follow up on it or who'd have noticed something like this if it was really happening. Maybe even get some pictures of the stuff if it's really there. If it's not, of course, then no need to give pictures. But otherwise, we're just theorizing about this one story, which is pure anecdote and as we all know (or I sure hope), anecdotes aren't very useful.

But hearing from someone else what they've seen is anecdote.

"If it's really there?" The oil? Of course it's really there. I didn't listen to it all the way through, so I don't know what "one story" you mean. I'll listen to it again tomorrow.

Oh, the "people" stopping others from taking pictures, even arresting people who take pictures....I don't know...I'm dubious. Need more information, I agree. Listening to it now, it's starting to sound like CT paranoia.