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The Colonial Pipeline spill has caused 6 states (Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and North Carolina) to declare a state of emergency. Gasoline (petrol) prices on the east coast are likely to spike. Yet, most puzzling is how this vast emergency and its likely effect on cost of living has gone unnoticed by mainstream media outlets. The pipeline is owned by Koch Industries: is this why the media is silent?
[Are there any Soylentils in the affected area who can corroborate this story? Have you heard of the spill, seen long gas lines, or any price gouging? -Ed.]
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Six US States Declare Emergency after Major Gasoline Pipeline Spill; Media Almost Silent
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by DECbot on Monday September 19 2016, @03:46PM
People commenting on local media were uniformly taken by surprise. No one saw this coming. No one thought that after Ike in 2008 that we'd be so dependent on a single pipeline. Most comments were bewildered.
This is something that I'm seeing more often. I live in a mostly rural area in the Midwest, and I've notice the increasing difficulty in obtaining local news. The local papers are not owned locally anymore, and thus staff has been cut and most reporting is outright regurgitation of Reuters or Associated Press. Subscribers then cancel because they get the same news online. Getting any information about my local city, county, or state is futile. When the local convenience store closed suddenly, it was weeks before I learned through co-workers that the closure was due to a car smashing through one cinder-block wall, and nearly knocking out the back wall too. Something like that I'd expect in the local paper--at least in the police reports section, but I never saw it.
The newspapers call the internet as the end of newspapers, but I really think it was the lack of news and journalism. My hometown's paper was bought by a big city paper and its quality dropped long before web 2.0 came about.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @04:23PM
This is the truth, though you won't see it brought up often.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday September 19 2016, @05:54PM
Yup. Wanna know the secret that is keeping the small local papers going despite the fact you look at them and can't figure out why anyone sane would buy a copy? Two reasons, both government related:
1. Legal notices. The government is required to pay to publish them in the local 'paper of record' even though they could put them on their local webpage and reach more people now. State laws still require they pay the paper. Guess why?
2. My State, and probably your State too, have laws forbidding the schools from putting 'personally identifying' information on their webpage, including photos of students, most especially the players on the local sports teams. Guess who isn't limited? Guess who actually writes most of the copy though.... cozy. And very profitable.