Bob WymanNPR reports that six news websites in Alabama and Florida have been taking under-the-table payments from electric utilities in exchange for stories attacking alternative energy.
antipode77This is so totally corrupt.
A core tenet of U.S. journalism holds that reporting should be fair and transparent, unaffected by financial backers who may have their own hidden interests. News outlets are supposed to hold the powerful to account and give people the knowledge to make choices as informed citizens.
Those driving the news agenda are often "the special interests, the monied interests."