New York Times' Copycat Journalism: Tex Hall and Blood Oil

The top article above by The New York Times, published today, has a very similar title, 
and similar facts, to the Censored News article in February.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The New York Times has finally covered Chairman Tex Hall and the corruption in the oil and gas industry on the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation in North Dakota.

The New York Times article today has almost the same title as Censored News original article published in February, as you can see above. Copy cat journalism is never flattering, especially when those who did the original work are not given credit, including those of us who are unpaid and do this as a labor of love.

Meanwhile, the Censored News original article on the resolution to suspend Tex Hall was the most read article at Censored News in 2014. Thank you to everyone who provided documents and photos.

Here's the original Censored News series published in February and March of this year.

Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/tex-hall-blood-oil-and-murder-probe.html

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/03/independent-investigator-of-tex-hall-is.html

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Thanks to Alice Holemans at NAIS for the Dutch translation!

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* NEW YORK TIMES ‘COPYCAT’ JOURNALISTIEK : TEX HALL EN OLIE CORRUPTIE

 Door Brenda Norrell: www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Vertaald door NAIS: www.denaisgazet.be

Het artikel in The New York Times heeft dezelfde titel, en geeft gelijkaardige feiten zoals gepubliceerd in Censored News in februari

De New York Times heeft eindelijk de verslaggeving over Tex Hall en de corruptie in de olie en gas industrie in de Mandan, Hidatsa en Arikara Nation in Noord Dakota, gepubliceerd.

Het artikel in de New York Times article draagt bijna dezelfde titel als het oorspronkelijke bericht dat Censored News in februari gepubliceerd heeft.

Copycat journalistiek is nooit flatterend , vooral niet wanneer diegenen die het oorspronkelijke werk gedaan hebben geen erkenning kregen, waaronder ook zij die er niet voor worden betaald en dit doen met liefde en toewijding.

Ondertussen was het oorspronkelijke artikel in Censored News over de resolutie om Tex Hall te schorsen het meest gelezen artikel in Censored News in 2014.

Dank aan iedereen die de documenten en foto’s bezorgden.

Hieronder is de oorspronkelijk serie gepubliceerd in Censored News in Februari en maart van dit jaar.

Censored News: Tex Hall: Blood OIl and the Murder Probe (Feb 2014)

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/tex-hall-blood-oil-and-murder-probe.html

Censored News: Resolution prepared to suspend Tex Hall

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Censored News: Independent investigator of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/03/independent-investigator-of-tex-hall-is.html

'Independent investigator' of Tex Hall is actually oil and gas lobbyist

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The firm Dentons that the Three Affiliated Tribes hired to do an "independent investigation" of Chairman Tex Hall and the alleged oilfield corruption is actually a lobbyist for the Bakken oil and gas industry. The push for the probe comes as a murder investigation continues into one of Hall's business partners in the oil and gas industry. A second partner is missing.

Chairman Hall created his own business, Maheshu, to profit from the oil and gas industry on tribal land.

Another person, former North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas Spaeth -- who was in North Dakota working on oil and gas issues -- was found dead Sunday.

(The screen capture below shows Dentons is a lobbyist for the Bakken oil and gas industry in North Dakota.) http://www.dentons.com/en/global-presence/united-states/washington-dc.aspx

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Dentons, the 'independent investigator' of Tex Hall and oil field corruption is not only a Bakken oil and gas lobbyist, but Dentons was also responsible for removing a YouTube satire of the tarsands in Alberta: http://www.isidewith.com/news/article/law-firm-behind-removal-of-youtube-tar-sands-satire-fundraiser-t
Meanwhile, investigators are probing the murder of a business associate of Tex Hall in Washington state, Douglas Carlile, 63, of Spokane, and the disappearance of another business associate in North Dakota, KC Clark. At the same time, investigators say an informant said Hall was also targeted for murder.

Investigators are probing a string of businesses that Tex Hall and business associate James Henrikson, now in police custody, were involved with in the oil and gas industry on land of the Three Affiliated Tribes, also known as Fort Berthold.

A resolution states that Hall allegedly profited from a tribal payment for more than $588,000 for road watering work to one of the companies, Blackstone Oil Field Services.

Meanwhile, Chairman Hall created his own personal company, Maheshu Energy, to financially benefit from the oil and gas industry on tribal land. While tribal members struggled to protect the environment, Hall pushed for oil and gas leasing on tribal land and argued before a Congressional committee in favor of fracking.

Besides widespread devastation to the land, air and water, the Three Affiliated Tribes became infested with crime as a result of the ‘man camps’ of oil and gas workers.

In the news:

Former North Dakota Attorney General found dead Sunday:

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/429579/

Spokane Review: North Dakota chairman and murder for hire suspect linked

"The chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes – the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation – is linked in court documents to James T. Henrikson, 34, who is suspected of hiring another man to kill Doug Carlile, a business associate in Spokane. Henrikson has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm." Read article:

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/feb/14/nd-tribal-chairman-suspect-in-murder-for-hire/

Censored News: Background on resolution and links:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2014/02/by-brenda-norrell-censored-news-new.html

Media Watch: Newspaper cheerleads for rape of Mother Earth

The road into New Town, North Dakota, on the land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations (Fort Berthold, July 31, 2011.) Photo by Brenda Norrell/Censored News
Media Watch: Indian Country Today hits a new all time low
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

NEW TOWN, North Dakota -- The newspaper Indian Country Today didn't show up to cover the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering and now has an article cheerleading the rape of the earth and the ongoing devastation by the oil and gas industry.

Perhaps the newspaper would have been less likely to publish a press release, during the newspaper's downward spiral, if its reporters or editors had been present at the Gathering and listened to the people here, and witnessed the carnage by the oil and gas industry.

Perhaps if Indian Country Today had listened to Kandi Mossett tell of how her 23-year-old friend was killed by one of these trucks here, the newspaper would not have been so careless in what it posts for profit.

"We can't drink the oil," Kandi said, as the tears fell from her eyes, remembering her friend and others being driven off the road by these trucks.

Maybe if Indian Country Today had listened to Kandi, and the other Native youths, and elders here of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations, speak of how the land, water and air is being poisoned, how the truck diesel and pollution spills onto the land, the newspaper would not have been so irresponsible.

Perhaps if the newspaper's staff had listened to the elders here tell how greed for money is destroying the nation today, it would not have carelessly published an article cheering for the oil and gas industry and the elected politicians.

Perhaps if the newspaper's staff had heard the elders speak of how the Three Affiliated Nations at Fort Berthold, were devastated by colonizers during the smallpox genocide, the editors would have taken their responsibility more seriously to both show up for the Gathering of Indigenous Peoples from across the Americas, and then publish the facts.

Maybe if the staff of Indian Country Today had been there, choking on the dust and gagging from the gas flaring, the staff might not have rushed to support President Tex Hall's ongoing publicity campaign.

The minimum for a newspaper is to show up and report the facts.

For Indian Country Today to engage in a counter campaign to this Gathering, and carelessly support the destruction of the earth, while publicizing its favored politicians, is what this newspaper does best.

The newspaper hit an all time low.

Please continue to boycott this newspaper.
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Please listen to the audio files from the Protecting Mother Earth Gathering, on the land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara, of the Indigenous Environmental Network, July 28-31, recorded by Earthcycles and Censored News:http://www.earthcycles.net/ienearth

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