Flying cover for the dark money-backed 'Franklin News Foundation'

Its job isn't news. Its job is keeping anonymous billionaires happy by laundering conservative talking points.

In Sunday’s News-Gazette, Jim Dey wrote about a federal appeals court decision that allows public officials to deny people access to media events. (You can find more about the decision in this AP story.)

In describing it, Dey included this dubious claim: “The Chicago-based Franklin News Foundation, sometimes characterized as ideological by its critics, o…