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Smokestack image not a typical area plant
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Aug. 13, 2011 12:50 am
I saw the photo of the belching smokestack on the Aug. 1 front page. No wonder people don't want power plants in their state when you portray power plants as uncontrolled polluters.
I note that it was taken from an image website with no effort to state that this is not a typical smokestack.
The power plants in Cedar Rapids and at ADM burn coal. They don't look like that. Why didn't you use photos of those plants' smokestacks for the front page?
As a regulator of air emission sources, I find this report to be a terrible case of sensationalism and an attempt to sway readers' views without having to be on the opinion page.
Clark Ott
Elkader
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