I never watch the network news, but I was briefly in a place of business tonight that had the ABC nightly news on and they were featuring this story. I might as well have been watching the Airstrip One Evening News. No mention of criticism at all, only that the pipeline was in an unspecified “environmentally sensitive” area, and that “the Republican governor of Nebraska” also supports the decision. You’d never know there was a controversy at all.
Indeed, they soft peddled any POTENTIAL negatives that could possibly be associated with axing the project. Not only that, they vastly underreported the jobs not realized associated with it. The number you hear most often is 20k, but the real impact in terms of numbers is around 200k owing to unaccounted for support roles, transportation, maintenance and the like. The conveniently omit these things. It is so much propaganda.