'Chevron's 'Crude' Attempt to Suppress Free Speech'

"Even as headlines and broadcast news are dominated by BP’s fire-ravaged, sunken offshore rig and the ruptured well gushing a reported 210,000 gallons of oil per day into the Gulf of Mexico, there’s another important story involving Big Oil and pollution—one that shatters not only the environment but the essential First Amendment right of journalists to tell truth and shame the devil," write Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. "In New York last Thursday, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered documentary producer and director Joe Berlinger to turn over to Chevron more than 600 hours of raw footage used to create a film titled Crude: The Real Price of Oil." More at Truthout.