Originally published at: New Climate Journalism Awards Honor Chroniclers of the ‘Defining Story of Our Time’
Not a peep about longstanding coverage, crickets on Democracy Now and others having spoken regularly with ALL the major scientists, organizers, writers, publishers and advocates who have for decades been struggling to get the public to wake up. Hint to MM (so very much just candy ads) the corporate world needs to untwist itself, like handing over its obscene claims of “personhood” - used to cast a pall on all concepts of regulatory integrity. Failure to do so is fascist celebration of corruption as ‘necessary evil’ . What would be learned from those who have actually been attending to the task at hand ?
’ How’s that hopey changey thingy doin for ya?’ just one example of it’s plethora of dysfunctional offspring types. Today, ‘dysfunctional’ is the single most accurate term of description for the corporate puppeteers controlling the mass media minions - like those in the DNC, DCCC and on down the line.
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Clearly–time for #TotalRollingNonCooperationNow
Pacha Mama will belch and chuckle as Her plate tectonics subduct the last refinery. She might even pause to reflect: “ignorant ingrates”.
the corporate media including the weather channel rarely discuss the climate crisis as if it is a crisis we are already experiencing- they waste their limited coverage on capitalized green projects that show little if any promise- they still speak of climate change as if it is something we will need to deal with well in the future as they use the years 2050 and 2100 in their limited reporting- but what do you expect- how many corporate news shows do you see that are NOT continually barraged by car ads
I’ll never forget the editorial that local community newspaper The Surrey Now-Leader printed just before Earth Day 2017, titled “Earth Day in need of a facelift”. Varied lengths of the same editorial was also run by other community newspapers, all owned by the same news-media mogul, who’s also an aspiring oil refiner. It opined that “some people would argue that [the day of environmental action] … is an anachronism”, that it should instead be a day of recognizing what we’ve societally accomplished. “And while it [has] served us well, in 2017, do we really need Earth Day anymore?”
Before this, I had never heard anyone, let alone a mainstream news outlet, suggest we’re doing so well as to render Earth Day an unnecessary "anachronism”. Considering the sorry state of the planet’s natural environment, I found it one of the most stupid and irresponsible acts of editorial journalism I’d witnessed in my 33 years of news-media consumption.
Canada’s mainstream print news-media formally bedded with the nation’s fossil fuel industry. News conglomerate Postmedia (which, except for The Toronto Star, owns Canada’s major print publications) is on record allying itself with not only the planet’s second most polluting forms of carbon-based “energy”, but also THE MOST polluting/dirtiest of crudes — bitumen. [“Mair on Media’s ‘Unholiest of Alliances’ With Energy Industry”, Nov.14 2017, TheTyee.ca]
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017/11/14/mair-media-unholiest-alliances
During a presentation, it was stated: “Postmedia and CAPP [Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers] will bring energy to the forefront of our national conversation. Together, we will engage executives, the business community and the Canadian public to underscore the ways in which the energy sector powers Canada.”
Furthermore, in late May, Postmedia refused to run paid ads by Leadnow, a social and environmental justice organization, that expose the Royal Bank of Canada as the largest financer of fossil fuel extraction in Canada.
Really, should the promotion of massive fossil fuel extraction, even Canada’s own, be a partisan position for any newspaper giant to take, especially considering its immense role in global warming thus climate change? And, at least in this case, whatever happened to the honorable journalistic role of ‘afflicting the comfortable’ (which went along with ‘comforting the afflicted’), especially one of such environmental monstrosity?