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Media Coverage Overview – June 7, 2010

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Overall, media coverage monitoring this weekend and early today mainly centers on reports that oil has reached the Florida panhandle.  Most media coverage also stated that the oil spill will negatively affect Florida tourism, fisheries, economy and environment.  Some articles continue to report on the anger and frustration of Florida residents and industries impacted by the situation. Some articles discuss BP’s/President Obama’s response to the crisis.  The vast majority of media coverage however, focuses primarily on the tar washing up on Florida beaches.  Continue reading »

Media Coverage Overview – June 4, 2010

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Earlier today, overall media coverage continued to report that oil is fast approaching Florida beaches.  Traditional print and online media coverage continue to report that the oil will soon reach Florida beaches, and discuss efforts on how Florida officials are preparing for landfall, and continues to speculate on how Florida fisheries, tourism, environment and economy will be affected by the oil spill. Continue reading »

Today’s media update shares what consumers may be seeing or hearing through online and print news articles. The purpose of the media update is to offer an overview perspective of the media headlines surrounding the oil spill situation. Today’s overview is pulled from the last 24 hours of news coverage. Continue reading »

As Florida continues to deal with the evolving oil spill, we think it may be helpful to track media coverage and share that with the industry.  This will give us all a shared understanding of what our potential and current visitors may be seeing or hearing and help us all anticipate the kinds of questions we may need  to address for them.  We hope this is useful to you – please let us know. Continue reading »