Trying to downsize oil crisis

Bit by bit, we're starting to learn that there will indeed be life after the BP spill. In an amazing front-page piece, the NYT reported this morning that, "the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be dissolving far more rapidly than anyone expected," A week or two ago, we started to see sport fisherman returning to the Gulf waters. Around that same time, economists began downplaying the effects of the spill (save for the Gulf Coast tourism industry). In other words, it's time to move on. All of which presents something of a problem for TV network executives, who have been peddling this story as the most monumental environmental calamity of all time. Right now, it's not looking that way. All I can say is that if this hadn't been such a strikingly visual story, with those dramatic overhead shots of red goo and the heartbreaking close-ups of pelicans covered in crude, broadcast coverage would not have been one tenth of what it turned out to be. And now comes the hard part: Since the crisis is more or less under control, how do they disengage? Well, as you can see in the above video from CBS (the most overwrought of the networks), they're really not.