The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power. (Pub. Oct. 2024) W/ @floodlightnews.org & @towcenter.bsky.social - ThreadSky

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The Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.

(Pub. Oct. 2024)
W/ @floodlightnews.org & @towcenter.bsky.social

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down10.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stuff like this triggers my depression fr

digitalramble.bsky.social•22 hours ago

any pretense to reclaiming and fixing this country will have to include the media

nzorach.bsky.social•21 hours ago

the newspaper has only one review, it's time to do your thing. (no, i don't think this will hurt anyone-- the newspaper laid off most of its real staff a few years ago when it was purchased by a right-wing crazy person).

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FGSSvty9xMfZpsn76

grumpybluedot.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mount Vernon, Ohio, is a fundamentalist evangelical infested hell hole, too. Makes sense.

togrowell.bsky.social•1 day ago

The more we know.

actuallymossman.bsky.social•1 day ago

America deserves this kind of broken press

vermicula.bsky.social•1 day ago

Solar and wind farms were basically run out of our Ohio county.

spaller.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not the first:
"...a United Nations Plan to get rid of the fossil fuels, destroy our food supply, eliminate rural living and bring every living person on Earth under total government control."
https://www.hubcityspokes.com/local-content/residents-voice-opposition-proposed-solar-farm-lamar-county

retiredlefty.bsky.social•1 day ago

We need democracy minded millionaires to start buying small town papers.

digitalramble.bsky.social•22 hours ago

i don’t want millionaires “solving” this problem. it won’t happen anyway

starrceline.bsky.social•1 day ago

News media across USA has this problem...most papers only survive by being bought by business interests which are, almost always conservative-leaning.

ryanpjolley.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ohio is so bad that moving to South Carolina was a massive upgrade

dynamitefuzz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ohio is the state with the most astronauts

These brave men and women hated Ohio so much they went to space to get away from it.

ryanpjolley.bsky.social•22 hours ago

😂 Good one

sspence3.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Listen, i get it, but not all of this are this way. This is what happens when these small towns are siloed in news. One side has clearly strategized the small amount it takes to skew public opinion. Look at the country, dump told the US windmills kill whales and 45mill believed it

ryanpjolley.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I lived in Ohio for 35 years, and was heavily involved in local and state politics. The lunatics run the asylum, and it gets worse every cycle. SC politics is almost as bad…but the weather is fantastic 😎

sspence3.bsky.social•20 hours ago

The gop has wrecked the state

dynamitefuzz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I disagree. As a mitten resident it is my sworn duty to shit in Ohio and every possible chance I get.

Fuck Ohio, Toledo is rightfully ours.

dynamitefuzz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Furthermore, stop polluting our roads with your terrible driving because your ass backwards state doesn’t let you buy weed.

Almost as bad as the FIPS.

sspence3.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Lolol. Weed is legal now.

kitkor.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh, and as a follow-up to this story, the then-candidate Keesee won, the county commissioners indeed voted to restrict solar projects, and Keesee's prosperity gospel church is now embroiled in a rape scandal, with victims from 6 to 15 years old. https://www.knoxpages.com/2025/04/18/gary-thomas-keesee-jr-arrested-on-two-counts-of-rape/

nanbgood.bsky.social•1 day ago

Anything that has to do with the evangelical church now, is nothing but a coverup to hide the perversion of child porno and SA. If they’re screaming religious persecution, they are hiding this depravity. Bet on it.

kitkor.bsky.social•1 day ago

I really appreciated this reporting when it first appeared. I've lived in Mount Vernon, Ohio since 2007 and the death of this local media company has been an incredible shame.

slappymcfartsack.bsky.social•1 day ago

That is so messed up.

themeanprogressive.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for covering this.

bikeguy2024.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Support SOLAR power!

bluedrewj.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just drive thru Ohio and can't get outa here fast enough

starjet.bsky.social•1 day ago

Not surprising. Watch Alex Gibbey's new hbo doc on dark money. The first chapter is all about the corruption over First energy and Speaker of the Ohio house Larry Householder.
Ohio is gerrymandered to the max, and also corrupt AF.

xzogdrothx.bsky.social•1 day ago

Isn't capitalism great?

actuallymossman.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s the shitty media

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