On April 20th an explosion on a drilling rig of the oil company BP in the Gulf of Mexico was about to mark history as the worst accidental oil spill ever. The disaster brought the United States down on its knee and shed a dark shadow of President Obama’s government. As the months have passed by and the gushing well has been stopped, many journalists and media coverage centers seem to have forgotten about the most damaging oil spill accident in the history of the United States.