1/ THREAD: After a large solar farm was proposed, it seemed to many in Knox County, Ohio that an anti-solar machine took over news and politics overnight. They were right. Here’s how fossil fuel interests shaped the conversation, and how the hometown paper’s new owners amplified it. 👇

Sounds sadly familiar to me here in NE Pennsylvania as well…

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Just the astroturfiest responses possible. I hate it.

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2/ Mount Vernon News had been owned by the same family since 1939, but by 2020, it was barely holding on. The paper was sold to Metric Media, a news network described by media researchers as “pink slime” — named for filler in processed meat.

I can’t bear it anymore.

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Cc @katjadiehl.bsky.social So läuft das mit den Medien ... Ei kleines Beispiel. Und dann Stelle man sich Menschen vor, die mit Edolf ein ganzes Social Media Netzwerk kaufen für $44Mrd. Und was diese mit den ganz "normalen" Redaktionen machen können...

We had a solar farm proposed for a rural part of Greene County in Ohio (east of Dayton) also nixed by bogus opposition. Vesper Energy is trying again.