The media has picked up on the story first reported at RoaneViews about the United Mountain Defense volunteer who was arrested by TVA police on made up charges.

Instead of calling TVA out on heavy-handed tactics and harassment, the Knoxville News Sentinel decided to go with the TVA Public Relations Press Release version, which is 90% TVA's side of the story and includes some new "facts" that sound made up.

(The byline is "News Sentinel Staff." Apparently their reporters are ashamed to sign their names to it. Why not just put "Gil Francis" as the byline?)

WATE has a somewhat more balanced report. Between that and comments at the RoaneViews link above, folks who are interested in the questionable TVA/Roane Co. law enforcement tactics will get a much better picture of what's really going on.

UPDATE: Here's the AP version in the Nashville Tennessean. Compare and contrast to the KNS "staff" version, which appears to have come from the same AP report. The story is also getting some national independent media attention. Why is WATE is the only local media to cover this?