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In NBC's environment series America Goes Green Mike Taibbi offered a hymn of praise to the windmill farm on the shores of Lake Erie that is helping revitalize the rundown rustbelt town of Lackawanna NY with its disused Bethlehem Steel mills. The windmills are "a symbol of change from old ways to the new." They are "manna from heaven" offering "greater energy independence" to "this hardscrabble town." What made Taibbi's effusion about the virtues of wind-generated electricity unsettling was that NBC's corporate parent, General Electric, is a wind industry leader. Taibbi did not mention whether Lackawanna's turbines were manufactured by his parent company or not. But amid his general praise for the technology he should have mentioned his bosses' corporate interest.
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