Oh, do we love to talk about how the people of Appalachia are fighting back against overtly political efforts to exploit the region. And here we go again, as local residents have lambasted the Cleveland Scene, an “alternative” weekly newspaper, for its recently published article headlined “Dennis Kucinich Finds Fracking Facts in Southeast Ohio: A Horror Story.”
Much like Rolling Stone, the Cleveland Scene should really stick to its normal coverage of arts, dining, and music, because it’s clear that any other form of “journalism” is just too much for this paper to handle.
To put it mildly, the Cleveland Scene’s coverage of Kucinich, an Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former “Moonbeam Congressman,” is so comically over-the-top that it reads like an article from The Onion. But the piece is actually not a parody at all, showing how incredibly arrogant and ignorant Kucinich and this publication are, not to mention wholly disrespectful to the people of Appalachia. But hey, when an urban weekly arts and dining newspaper berates our nation’s veterans as “ex-military men… conscripted into security jobs for the energy companies,” would we expect anything less?
In a nutshell the article basically tells the tale of Kucinich riding around Appalachia Ohio to see the so-called “horror story” fracking has caused. The ridiculous Cleveland Scene article states,
“Then came the shocking stories, with accompanying images, of scuzzy and sometimes flammable water. There was the anecdote from a man near Cambridge who claimed he had to buy six new pairs of Carharrt boots in six months because the mud was chewing through the rubber soles.”
For the record, the author is referring to Carhartt boots, not Carharrt, but with all the other inaccuracies here, who’s counting. The rest of the editorializing went like this,
“That the farm animals could no longer be persuaded to drink the water was a given — much of this land would never be farm-able again. But what of the cow that had been born with two heads? What of the two men who’d mysteriously died baling hay outside a compressor station in Noble County? The cause of death in one case, according to our local guide: a toxic liver.”
The article somehow ends with an even stranger statement from the “horror story” road show, stating that the oil and gas industry has actually “turned a rabbit to glass.”
In response, here are just a few of the best comments from the people who actually live and work in the region to being incredibly disrespected by both Kucinich and the Cleveland Scene in this absurd misrepresentation of Appalachia and shale development.
Top Five Best Cleveland Scene Burns
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Honorable Mention
As Ohio’s Democratic primary election draws near, Kucinich and his 15 minutes of newfound fame are winding down, as his failed strategy to use fracking as a red herring has doomed his campaign. Ohio voters have made it abundantly clear that they support oil and natural gas development, and for Appalachia, shale is in fact the greatest economic hope that the region has realized in decades.
Source: Daily Dose of ShaleDirectories.com News
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