KICKASS MUCKRAKER GREG PALAST BLASTS
NY TIMES VERSION OF BIG BLACKOUT CAUSE

From Palast's weblog:

Over 20-some column inches, we are told that "experts say" that the reason the lights went out over one fourth our continent ten days ago was that the electric industry, most particularly, transmission lines, "remained regulated." The answer to our woes, the Times informs us, is more deregulation -- except for the visionary rules contained in the President's energy bill. In the editorial posing as a news story, the Times lectures us that the president's proposals would have been law, and saved us from the power outage, "but politics have stymied their progress."

Later in the article, the stymiers of progress are named: those evil small-minded "consumer groups."

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Also, Palast gives energy industry deregulation background info in this speech transcript from Pacifica's Democracy Now.

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