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The Conversation: Press Hassled on Gulf Coast?

Reporting is often about access, but journalists along the Gulf Coast covering the BP oil spill have had some trouble getting it. As BP faces more pressure from the government and from its own shareholders unhappy with the company's falling stock price, it seems to be clamping down on who can talk to reporters. Despite company statements that anyone on cleanup crews can share their views, ABC's Matt Gutman reports that's not necessarily the case. Today during a "World News" Conversation, he...Full Story
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