Maine media sellouts on Windpower: the worst and the dumbest

Top down winner has always been the Working Waterfront tabloid emanating from the Island Institute. Now that the Island Institute and some of its board members are deep into the financial trough of corporate welfare that the federal government is doling out in great dollops to the wind extraction industry, it is no longer so caring about the feisty Maine islanders that  the 'Tute has long made its bread and butter on.  Under the bus the islanders go, along with all windsprawl malcontents.

The Portland Press Herald is next. Tux Turkel  & Ethan Wilensky-Lanford  will NOT mention any opposition to ocean wind farming. Fishermen? What? Maine has fishermen? They don't want windfarms? Yawn. Sorry, Tux et al can't cover that point of view; doesn't fit the spin from corporate welfare types  that all windmilling is good windmilling  


The PPH an d its satellite Kennebeck Journal  will also stupidly persist in writing that the bill is about "nearshore" windmilling, when it is most assuredly about "offshore" windmillery.

There are many other examples of witless windhuggery among the members of Maine's 4th estate.  Someone's gotta educate the news scibblers.

Stay tuned.