It has now become fairly common knowledge that BP is working to control the media coverage of the oil disaster by limiting access to it. Not only will they not let working journalists any closer than necessary, but now they’re even denying access to actors! Here’s a YouTube account of an attempted visit by Sophia Bush and Austin Nichols from the CW’s One Tree Hill, who were with the national and local head of Global Green:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOvsrUMJ0U[/youtube]

While countless journalists have been turned away, Kevin Pereira of the videogame network G4 got a fair amount of coverage of the coast:

Pereira also did a piece on the effect of the oil disaster on wildlife.