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Journalistic Failure: Calling them out for missing the real story

Your piece on American Aquafarms’ new propaganda videos reads like a company press release instead of a news story in a serious newspaper. For some reason the EA abandoned all journalistic principles and allowed American Aquafarms (which is neither American nor an operator of a single fish farm) to hype its massive, polluting, job-destroying fish farm scheme without any standard journalistic examination. There was no context, no questions, no investigation and no acknowledgement of the overwhelming grassroots opposition to the project. The “story” is such a lame love letter that it would be funny if the situation weren’t so tragic. By Jed West, Prospect Harbor >click to read< 10:31