Yesterday, Tampa Information Pressure acquired an e mail from a high-ranking midlevel bureaucrat with the Florida Public Service Fee, objecting to a part of an article titled “Regulators Approve TECO Plan to Screw Clients” and revealed right here at Tampa Information Pressure.com on Wednesday, December 4.
Oddly, the one objections are in regards to the falsely-attributed, fabricated quote and an incorrect job title, and nothing else however Tampa Information Pressure is delicate to the fragile emotions of our authorities companies who exist to serve small native companies like TECO, and to the truth that some folks don’t perceive satire or the first Modification. As such, we now have changed the next reckless and fabricated content material:
“Certain, we ignored the suggestions of our personal workers in making this choice, nevertheless it’s not like shoppers don’t produce other choices in the event that they don’t prefer it,” stated Florida Public Service Fee Chairman Gary Clark. “Get the neighbors collectively and construct a windmill or no matter else Amish folks do to outlive.”
With this:
“Certain, we ignored the suggestions of our personal workers in making this choice, nevertheless it’s not like shoppers don’t produce other choices in the event that they don’t prefer it. Get the neighbors collectively and construct a windmill or no matter else Amish folks do to outlive,” stated somebody who in all probability isn’t a member of the fee and positively isn’t Gary Clark, a commissioner and never the chairman of the group whose primary objective as said of their Public Service Fee Lengthy Vary Program Plan FY 2024-25 by way of 2028-29 is to ‘Be certain that the Florida utilities present dependable service to prospects’ (vaguely threatening websites that publish unflattering topical native satire doesn’t look like formally listed as a objective or directive).
This reckless and fabricated content material…
“Certain, we ignored the suggestions of our personal workers in making this choice, nevertheless it’s not like shoppers don’t produce other choices in the event that they don’t prefer it,” stated Florida Public Service Fee Chairman Gary Clark. “Get the neighbors collectively and construct a windmill or no matter else Amish folks do to outlive.”
… has been utterly eliminated and won’t seem on Tampa Information Pressure.com.
Tampa Information Pressure deeply regrets this error and provides the sincerest doable apology for it. As punishment, Mr. Brooks has been fined one week’s wage for this egregious act of fabricated recklessness.
