UPDATE: 7:30PM PST I’ve been offline much of today in travel and then immediately attending the Heartland dinner, so I’m hours late with this update. Apparently, the story has now been restored, and there’s a a second critical story. – Anthony
Yesterday while traveling I got some urgent emails on my phone alerting me to a story by Suzanne Goldenberg (at left) of the Guardian, I read it from a Starbucks in Susanville, CA while on my way to photograph the eclipse. I sighed and went on, because there was nothing I could do about it at the time except shake my head at the lack of journalism on display.
Readers may recall Goldenberg is the same reporter who broke the Fakegate story there originally, without bothering to check the authenticity of the Heartland documents first, or even to await confirmation from me on questions before publishing a smear. It seems she wrote a story “clearing” Peter Gleick of the document forgery, but the story had no references, no quotes, no sources, nothing.
That story has now “disappeared” from the Guardian website. Here’s the original screencap from Google cache:
and now if you visit this URL:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/20/peter-gleick-cleared-heartland
You get a 404:
A search for the key words on the Guardian website also reveals nothing. There’s nothing at Gleicks Pacific Institute either:
http://www.pacinst.org/press_center/
It seems editors at the Guardian have taken the story down, perhaps because it was baseless and/or premature?
James Sexton finds some interesting things connected to Goldenberg’s “journalism”:
Thanks to reader Kim, I did a little research on the corespondent who reported this ……… story? It seems our friend, Suzanne Goldenberg, has a past with departing from the truth already.
Apparently she was the lead reporter in the bombed ambulance hoax.
In 2006 she reported:
On the night of July 23, 2006, an Israeli aircraft intentionally fired missiles at and struck two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances performing rescue operations, causing huge explosions that injured everyone inside the vehicles. Or so says the global media, including Time magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and thousands of other outlets around the world. If true, the incident would have been an egregious and indefensible violation of the Geneva Convention, and would constitute a war crime committed by the state of Israel.
But there’s one problem: It never happened.
http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/22533_Al-Guardian_Shills_for_Ambulance_Story
Or just Google Suzanne Goldenberg ambulance hoax.
Maybe this will be enough for the Guardian to boot her? Fool me once…fool me twice…
When your reporter becomes the news, maybe you should rethink having that reporter. Just my opinion.
I’m off to catch a plane…stories and moderation light today.
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Something funny is going on at the Guardian… none of the above links work, the page just hangs, to me anyway.
The Guardian is not a news organization, it is a propaganda organization for the political left. They are going to publish anything that validates their meme, truth notwithstanding.
Thanks Eric for the new link — which does work. The article deceptively leaves out the fact that Gleick has confirmed that the disputed document did not come from Heartland. By only saying that Gleick claims he didn’t forge it, the article leads the reader to think the document might be Heartland’s.
This bit of writing should be grounds for termination. This is clearly meant to mislead. At minimum, the guardian should print a correction.
“The Guardian regularly appears to receive special treatment that other media outlets don’t get.
I don’t know if anyone else outside Old Blighty here is following the “phone hacking” investigations, however you might like to know that one of the Guardian’s star journalists, David Leigh, admitted to using phone hacking himself. Is he being charged? No. Why not is anyone’s guess….”
Yeah like having no evidence at all that Milly Dowler’s phone messages were cleared by NI personnel which is what sparked off the major investigation. Useful lies…
Now the Guardian can claim that Gleick been cleared twice. Once in a article on 5/20 and then again, and also independently (but more so), on 5/21.
And soon, this will be listed as multiple independent inquiries (cf. Mann).
I presume that,evidence that this self-confessed blagging fraudster has been obtaining government grants has been suppressed by the funding agencies? Good! Business can now resume.
No “Comments” section under the article? (or am I just missing it) Poor form. Would have been interesting reading.
they are organised like the Vatican in The Guardian althought they are networked in one industrial brainwashing complex with the beeb and the Independent and with affiliations with all the red ticks institutes worldwide.
Probably more ressembling the papal episcopat in France in the middle ages.
they will never retract anything, that is for mortals only to do. They write God sorry Marx’ word and that is incontestable, it can never change.
Harry Won A Bagel says:
May 21, 2012 at 7:06 am
The extraordinary ignorance of many journalists amazes. It is sometimes so profound you suspect it is deliberate…..
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Not exactly deliberate but a spin off of trying to sell the paper and having a deadline to meet. My Father-in-law owned a newspaper and managed to completely mess up the story on the winner of the school science fair. This despite the fact that the winner was his son who was sitting at the same table doing his homework at the time he wrote the story. If a journalist can muck up something that simple (and I know of plenty of other cases) there is a darn good reason not to believe what is in a newspaper. Only the sports scores are carefully checked. (You do not want to get on the wrong side of the Mafia’s bookies).
This is the all time classic http://www.deweydefeatstruman.com/dewey-truman-framed-photo.htm
The original page was taken down between 22:48BST and 23:01BST on 20 May. The amended page was posted at 16:01BST on 21 May.
Neither article seems to contain any news. It just says Gleick has been cleared without producing any corroborating information. No actual findings, no information on who did the clearing … crickets.
How can this be called reporting – it looks like rumor mongering.
Mods, or Anthony……..
Mz. Goldenberg appears to be at the conference. http://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/image_thumb45.png?w=583&h=446
Maybe some one there could ask her about this? Mods, could one of you guys alert Anthony and/or some other interested party, that our story teller is among there midst and perhaps she could shed some light on all of this?
‘shonky’ and ‘churno’. Sounds like a comedy team.
good move….now that she’s been thoroughly trashed all over the internet….she puts it back up, drawing even more attention to herself….and showing people she still doesn’t have references, no quotes, no sources, nothing.
Phil C says:
May 21, 2012 at 8:41 am
….Page 18 of the Heartland Budget document identifies $75,000 for “K-12 Climate Education Project Payments to David Wojick for K-12 Global Warming Lesson Plan modules plus a Website featuring the same.” As I said before, in the four months since the documents were posted on the Internet, the Heartland Institite has neither confirmed nor denied the autbeticity of this document…..
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So???
PETA gets to go into schools and teach children that their parents who hunt are murderers and it is <unethical to own pets.
National Science Teachers Association: …People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has launched TeachKind…
I can not find the exact link to the comment by the outraged parent who was accused of being a “Murderer” after a PETA talk at the local school. It was a few years ago.
Fire her? No way. This is the same Guardian newspaper (once upon a time, a truly fine paper called The Manchester Guardian, but suborned by Lefties when they moved to London. If you think Goldenberg is bad, check out Polly Toynbee. And of course, the egregious idiot Moonbat lives there as well. CP Scott must be spinning in his grave to see what has happened to his wonderful journal.
ANYWAY…. this is the same Guardian, that had to print 35 (THIRTY FIVE) apologies to the (odious, sure, but that’s not the point) News Of The World. They stated the NOTW had done things which no could prove. Their high horse is so high that if they all fell off they would break their necks…
And it’s circulation is collapsing month by month.
It was also The Guardian that worked on Julian Assange literally for HOURS to persuade him to put out the “Wikileaks” documents. That organization should, in my opinion, be shut down and individuals charged with being an accessory to murder as that Iranian who was outed by the Wikileaks documents was hanged last week.
And concerning “phone hacking”, I have been seeing phone hacking software for sale for about 2 years now. Anyone can purchase that software and use it and many assuredly are.
So that’s ok then, academics can lie, defraud and steal all in the name of the ’cause’ or for the ‘team’ and they thought the Heartlands poster was bad. Double standards in action, if Gleick were at my university I would have expected him to have been fired, immediately after he confessed to email impersonation and email fraud. The man is not to be trusted, likewise his supporters. Why the Guardian is supporting this liar is beyond comprehension!
Phil C says:
Page 18 of the Heartland Budget document identifies $75,000 for “K-12 Climate Education Project Payments to David Wojick for K-12 Global Warming Lesson Plan modules plus a Website featuring the same.” As I said before, in the four months since the documents were posted on the Internet, the Heartland Institite has neither confirmed nor denied the autbeticity of this document.
1. Here’s the quote from the Guardian article that you failed to include (apparently because it would show how asinine your response is): “that revealed a plan to spread doubt among kindergarteners on the existence of climate change.”
The Guardian article discusses a PLAN to spread doubt among kindergarteners. It does not discuss a BUDGET ITEM that mentions a PLAN that says nothing about spreading doubt among kindergarteners. Do you really fail to see the difference?
2 “the Heartland Institite has neither confirmed nor denied the autbeticity (sic) of this document.”
Really??? How do you know this? Have you looked? Do you just make these statements in vacuum?
What about: http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/ceasedesist1.pdf
Or http://heartland.org/sites/default/files/ceasedesist2.pdf
Those two letters seem to deny the authenticity of the forged document quite well.
[Multiple screen names violate site Policy. ~dbs, mod.]
The story is back up at the Guardian, now dated May 21,2012.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/21/peter-gleick-cleared-heartland?INTCMP=SRCH
Efforts at places such as Forbes are especially important now that they have begun to allow high-profile climate scientists (such as Gleick) to post warmist science essays that counter our own. (emphasis mine)
I would argue there are only two people on the entire planet who would have ever written something so utterly preposterous; Gleick and his mom.
I nominated Goldenberg for PJMedia’s “Duranty Prize” contest, announced today.
http://pjmedia.com/duranty/
I’ll go along with all the other Brits who are expressing embarrassment at this nonsense, except that it’s even worse for me.
I used to take the Guardian every day. [blush]
Let me hurry to explain that this was years ago, roughly around the time when being ‘anti-Establishment’ was a Good Thing, and when the Guardian actually did decent investigative journalism as well as its political thing.
In the unlikely event that anyone from the Guardian reads this, it was around the time you stopped doing proper journalism and filled your high-priced pages with this sort of unthinking green BS from the likes of Goldenberg, Monbiot, etc. that I left. And you know what? I don’t miss you at all.
Update: Now, if you visit the old URL you get the new page. How very unsuspicious. /not
Steve C (no relation to Phil C)
It looks to be back up again now. I am in the UK, so that may have access.
Posting is guardian.co.uk, Monday 21 May 2012 16.01 BST – 2hrs 40mins ago
“”Barry Sheridan says:
May 21, 2012 at 8:29 am””
Well said that man. Hear, hear.