In Sharing the bottom: Maine Fishermen's Forum looks at wind energy, Rockland Herald Gazette/VillageSoup reporter Shlomit Auciello has again indulged in her Khruschev-like excision from the picture of some of the chief participants in the story: This time covering a meeting on a plan to fill state nearshore waters with windmills. The reporter quotes only from the wind industry and its governmental supporters. Where are the fishermen in the story? There was a furious roomful, I was there, Auciello was there. the fishhermen and their leaders were there. Last time she ignored the chief litigant in the offshore wind plan of the state in her story on University of Maine's offshore wind plan. Lawsuit? What lawsuit?
Why were none of them in her "coverage"? Apparently the editorial policy of the Herald Gazette and its Village Soup owners is to censor out any dissenters to uncontrolled land-rush windfarm expansion into Maines nearshore and offshore waters. Existing users be damned, no matter how many centuries they've fished and sailed here. And the fishermen are furious, as Auciello would know by contacting the commercially fishing members of her local community. She instead, threw the fishing industry under the bus
She giave her readers a false impression of what happened at this imnportant event, what it means for people living on the coast and who wins and loses with upcoming legislation that would open entire Maine coast to windfarms.
Just another surgical strike on truth, by the Rockland Herald gazette
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