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Monday, May 10, 2010

Will Nifty Blobject Trick Reporters Into Doing Their Jobs?

NOLA.com has an animation of the spread of the oil-spill in the Gulf, day by day, from the initial disaster to the present moment.

Look, people! It moves, it swells, it spreads, as sinuously on and on it menaces the coast. That's important, that sinister gelatinous spreading movement of squid-monster ink, that slick of swirling-oil hurricane curvature clawing toward human and nonhuman settlements...

It's important because the Village punditocracy is showing every sign of shifting their attention to the next shiny object (the next to non-news of Kagan's inevitable nomination and nearly-equally-inevitable eventual confirmation to the Supreme Court, whatever shit-stink Republican assholes fart into the ready microphones), and the fact that this animation actually mesmerically moves may hypnotize the saucer-eyed gaze of a few reporters into lingering on to the actually catastrophically real spill that demands our collective attention at the moment if the culprits are to be held the least bit accountable and laws changed to prevent the same thing happening again.

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