Last week, The Santa Barbara Independent reported that the federal, state, and local agencies involved in cleaning up the Refugio Oil Spill created a media briefing proposal that sought to “target” six journalists so they would help “tell the ‘progress’ story.” Attached below is a copy of that proposal.
We have wondered exactly who within the Unified Command’s Joint Information Center — which includes Plains All American Pipeline — was tasked with generating the list. And, moreover, we have been curious why so many reporters in Santa Barbara and beyond didn’t make the cut. The Independent has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) request for all of the Joint Information Center’s media inquiry records to better understand its public relations strategy.