Energy Politics

Oil’s dropped down to $115 again, but this time it’s not worthy of a front page story on Yahoo! because it’s moving in the opposite direction.

I suppose we shouldn’t be all that surprised, but still, it does make one question the priorities of the news media. Yahoo! was posting front-page stories every time oil prices hit a new record like it a video game and we were supposed to be keeping score.

Which leads me to my main point: is the new media’s purpose to keep people abreast of all new developments, or just the “bad” ones? I mean, oil prices dropping down because we have a surplus should be newsworthy, right?

–Stephen Payne, Editor, Oil and Gas Investor This Week; spayne@hartenergy.com

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