Kashmir Hill
Powerful investigation on the implications of the collapse of independent local journalism: higher energy bills. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm
In the Southeast, power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics

Alabama Power and Florida Power & Light hired the consulting firm Matrix to help shape their fortunes. Matrix funded six sites that covered politics, filling a void left by the decline of local news.

NPR
Dec 20, 2022 at 2:17pmWeb
Show threadDunablue2Dec 21, 2022
@kashhill without local journalism-in all forms of media-there is no local public sphere: corporations free to run amok!