they must have been thinking of ‘the nutcracker’
thanks to a tip from my buddy and love anderson cooper, i learned about the bp’s blog from the gulf today. in every way possible, the blog’s reporters take a glass half full reporting approach. my favorite example of this was from a report filed on may 28. in the blog post titled ballet at sea reporter paula komar describes the cleanup effort using flowery language like this: “triangles, circles, v-angles: precision shapes at sea executed by shrimping vessels and choreographed by skimming perfectionists to stop any oil from potentially getting close to Alabama’s coast.”
here are a few tidbits from komar and her colleague tom seslar’s other reports:
- in working together – “On Mothers Day, BP provided a rose boutonnière for each mom and a wonderful Alabama police office bought hundreds of roses and handed a single rose to every mom and lots of daughters. Though the work never stopped, there were a lot of smiling faces and a few tears, reminding everyone that this spill response is only a very small part of what’s important.”
- in i saw the oil spill today – “Seeing it real-time, up close, eyes-on is, oddly, an inspiration to shake off the weariness, to look ahead, not behind, to dig in and focus with vigour on the task at hand.”
- in flying higher to get closer to the oil spill – “My appreciation for the enormity of the oil industry as an economic contributor in the Gulf of Mexico climbed sharply within minutes after I hitched a ride aboard a helicopter that BP had chartered for a couple of oil hunters.”
[bp's blogs from the gulf, image street giant]
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wow. they must be tired from all of those pirouettes and spins.