Friday, November 22, 2013

News in disguise

I was researching the Northern Pass Project for one of my other classes and a Concord Monitor article popped up pretty high in the Google search. The headline reads " Northern Pass Project: Two Views." And I think, great! I found an article that lays out both sides of the argument so I can form my own opinion.

Wrong.

Listed in the byline only as "Gary Long, For the Monitor," I found out at the end of the piece (which only shows one view of the argument, by the way) that Gary is President and COO of PSNH, one of companies that created the Northern Pass Project. Sure, under the headline it says " power plan is good for taxpayers and good for the environment," but isn't it the Monitor's job to interview this man, not let him write his own piece?

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