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Kn knows a thing or two about journalism. so when a bp employee showed up unannounced to interview her at her office on may 21st, she realized right away, she says, he had an agenda. >> i think he tried to come in here and get something positive. >> reporter: what kinds of questions did he ask you? >> what he wanted to know was how people's reaction was to bp. in other words, i got the impression he wanted to know if everybody thought bp was the bad guy. >> reporter: her answer at the time was that people were looking for someone to blame and bp was it. hardly a blistering critique. days later...

Among their blogs from the gulf in the bp newsletter. turns out bp has dispatched two employees to the gulf who call themselves, according to their blogs, bp reporters. but their reporting looks nothing like our reporting or the rest of the media's reporting. it's far more positive. check out this blog by bp reporter tom seslar, the same guy who interviewed vicki chaisson. he interviewed a family who says there is no reason to hate bp. this, from folks in the fish business that has been destroyed by the bp spill. >> not one person in america will be fooled by this propaganda campaign. the repo...

Vicki chaisson anymore, who ten days after her interview with bp wrote a negative editorial about the company. comments like those, she believes, would have been edited out by the bp reporter who interviewed her. randi kaye, cnn, new orleans. >> bp with its own reporters. i spoke about it earlier with james carville and plaquemines parish president billy nungesser. bp is sending their own employees out, their own, quote, unquote, reporters, to blog and explain the situation as they see. one of the reporters described the cleanup effort they witnessed on the water as, quote, a ballet at sea as ...

Are generally not covered by mainstream media, by major cable networks or by cnn. bp also says, quote, many of our employees are putting their hearts and souls into this response, telling these stories is one way we are recognizing their efforts. >> you know, there's just been so much printed and so much that's come to light since then that no one is trusting whatever bp says at this point. no one is. >> reporter: especially not vicki chaisson anymore, who ten days after her interview with bp wrote a negative editorial about the company, comments like those, she believes, would have been edite...

bp says high winds caused the containment cap to wobble today, leading to a slight drop in oil collection. meanwhile admiral thad allen says skimming capability has increased five fold since the beginning of june. even so, bobby jindal says local parishes are still waiting for their cleanup equipment. and a new forecast by noaa says there's an 80% choice that the oil will reach miami, that's right, miami, by the middle of august. it's already made its way to the panhandle of florida where a new health watch was issued for all pensacola beaches, a disastrous start for the holiday week...