Today, Paul Rioux at Nola.com reported on the candy-coated coverage of the BP oil disaster at Blogs from the Gulf. Writers find the heart-warming, beautiful side of the gulfside efforts. Rioux writes:

BP spokesman Mark Salt said the company sent Kolmar and Tom Seslar, who normally write for an in-house magazine, to the Gulf as “another way of illustrating BP efforts from the perspective of someone who is actually there, observing the activity for themselves.”

The claims that the observations of these two are valuable because they’re actually there might carry more weight if BP wasn’t working to keep other journalists off the beaches and away from the Gulf.