Great comment from NYT RE: BP & Oil Spill

Digg and NYT are 2 great examples of where the articles comments are almost more interesting, amusing, and profound than the articles themselves. (OK, Digg is not profound.) I always read the comments on the articles I read on these sites. If you don't you are missing something. Digg makes this even more efficient by showing comments in order of popularity (readers can "digg" comments as well as the original article). NYT should adopt this.

"What I would like to know is - why is nobody addressing the fact that off-shore drilling only benefits Big Oil and the elected officials they buy off? All the American people get for it is a polluted coastline. I'm sick of hearing the argument that off-shoring drilling is justified because it means the U.S. will be using domestic rather than foreign oil (thus not "supporting the terrorists"). This is the silliest argument I've ever heard. Why does the media pretend that it's legitimate? This is not Venezuela, where the government owns the oil. BP owns that oil and it's not a charity. It will sell it to the highest bidder - probably Japan or China. Wake up, America!

Concerned New Yorker
New York, NY"

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