Prof. Seeger comments on the naming of the Gulf of Mexico's 2010 oil spill...

New York Times
"Companies involved in Gulf oil spill play 'name that disaster' with eye on posterity"
by Mike Soraghan
Communication Professor Matthew Seeger, interim dean of the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, compared the scuffle over the naming of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the determined effort by the pork industry and the federal government to persuade the public to say "H1N1 virus" instead of "swine flu."
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/09/09/09greenwire-companies-involved-in-gulf-oil-spill-play-name-79834.html?ref=energy-environment