Demonstrators carried signs and chanted outside the New York Times Building in Midtown on Saturday to denounce how the newspaper ran full-page BP ads in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On Saturday, scientists estimated between 40 million to 109 million gallons of oil had leaked into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded in April and killed 11 workers.
Protesters said the newspaper should not have run BP’s “apology ads” during the failed cleanup efforts.
“BP has spent $50 million on campaign ads for positive [public relations] and we feel that money really needs to be spent on protection. There are still areas out there that have not been destroyed and can still be saved,” said organizer Lauren McGowan.
The New York Times did not comment Saturday on the protest.
(Source: NY1)
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These liberal protesters are hypocrites.
They want to lie about and attack BP falsly claiming BP wanted the oil spills and other lies but
BP is not allowed to tell the truth.
Further they are protesting instead of using their time and money to help clean it up since they claim to have so much time to protest about it.
It is just an excuse for tem to spread hatred of oil companies and against business in general.
They want communism and third world, poverty existence, for Americans.