{"id":106278,"date":"2022-12-28T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106278"},"modified":"2022-12-28T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:04:33","slug":"energy-company-money-flows-to-local-political-news-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106278","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Energy Company Money Flows to Local Political News Sites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2022\/12\/21\/energy-company-money-flows-to-news-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;At least six local political news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/19\/1143753129\/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heated.world\/p\/buying-the-press?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=2473&amp;post_id=91651166&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Atkin<\/a>: \u201cThis is a high-stakes story for both the climate and democracy. It shows fossil fuel interests taking advantage of a struggling local news environment to push an anti-renewable agenda on an unwitting public.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;At least six local political news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy,\u00a0NPR\u00a0reports. Emily Atkin: \u201cThis is a high-stakes story for both the climate and democracy. It shows fossil fuel interests taking advantage of a struggling local news environment to push&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106279,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106278\/revisions\/106279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}