David FolkenflikDec 21, 2022

Friends new and old!

My first Mastodon post.

For the past 5 months, I've worked on a two-part investigation with Floodlight's Miranda Green & Mario Ariza.

The details are pretty bananas. And they get at the grim truth of what flourishes as local news coverage withers.

Part 1:
How power company cash secretly flowed to a half-dozen news sites in Alabama and Florida that assailed their critics

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
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@davidfolkenflik First, Thank you for joining Mastodon. I was raised in Alabama and the power companies are held in high regard by those over 50. TVA and the electrification of the south was a life changing event and power “co-ops” were community centers. We had a family reunion at the co-op when I was a child in the 70’s. This story doesn’t surprise me at all.
Dec 21, 2022 at 10:02pmWeb