BBC: Richard Black’s Farewell
Let’s hope the reporter who replaces him is more balanced.
For those who do not know, Richard Black is / was the environmental and global warming reporter for the BBC .
I’m sorry for the short post; I’m sending it from my phone from a fast food restaurant along Interstate 5.
hat tip to WUWT reader Pat
The Teams has lost its BBC bag boy , some one more balanced not sure about that given its cultural rather individual thing at the BBC , but at least it would be hard to have some one less balanced.
Let’s hope the reporter who replaces him is more balance.
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“Good riddance to bad rubbish”.
The BBC should be closed down and in Australia the ABC. It gets my goat that they spend my tax money on propaganda .
Well the link is broken but its broken from the side of the BBC page as well.
Says he is off to work on ocean conservation issues, sounds like a strange move for a supposedly neutral unbiased reporter.
Did he jump or was he pushed… he was caught out working as a campaigner in Brazil at the last climate scare working group after all , all I can say for sure is THANK GOD that man was/is a disgrace to journalism and should never have had a job in a publicly funded broadcaster
he will be sorely missed /sarc off
good riddance – but I pity the poor folk he will be joining…and I doubt his leaving will help the BBC regain any of its impartiality.
Big Green must be paying more bucks than the Beeb…
To quote Steven King, `The Stand`- `No great loss.
Ocean conservation? Maybe he’ll replace Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd who is on the run from the law in Costa Rica and skipped bail in Germany.
Mr Black on the outside would be in a perfect position to become a conduit for low quality propaganda from the ecomentalist industry, a key ex insider with golden contacts within the BBC and in effect a ‘deniable’ middleman passing as much pseudo science junk science as possible onto his replacement. As the BBC can no longer justify employing such a partisan and biased person it is a clever trick to have him on the outside doing more or less the same job only off the books as it were.
I thought this was a joke at first, given his well publicised bias, this is a step in the right directiom.
Now we just have to hope moonbat gets moved on 🙂
Unfortunately, it seems that the CBC here in Canada have been”interviewing” warmists rather a lot recently. It is a pity the media are so biased.
Perhaps he can get a job playing the role of the Micheal Mann in the up-coming Hollywood blockbuster “Dispatches”. 😉
Black, Mann, Hanson, and one other I can’t think of his name at the moment, they all look alike. Is there some kind of genic link?
For some reason the direct link to Richard Black’s farewell from the BBC is being rendered inoperative,
But you can still access it by routing through the BBC – Science & Environment page ;
Here – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science_and_environment/
Scroll down to the Richard Black heading.
Here’s the full text.
Farewell and thanks for reading
This is my last entry for this page – I’m leaving the BBC to work, initially, on ocean conservation issues.
While this page will no longer be updated, it will stay here for reference.
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my blog down the years – I’ve enjoyed writing it, and have appreciated your comments.
To keep up to date with news and views about the environment, I hope you’ll keep reading the science and environment pages of the BBC News website, and my science correspondent colleagues Jonathan Amos and David Shukman.
I think it’s kind of humorous that Richard says this page will stay there for reference in perpetuity – but the BBC sends back a 404 – this page does not exist – code on the first day.
Does that mean he is going to the Russian Arctic in winter to fight the drilling expansion there? I’m sure it will be warm and inviting with all the open, warm water expanses. Or does it mean he got a good deal on beachfront property in the tropics after scaring the locals to sell before the rising seas engulf them?
Chris B says:
August 31, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Let’s hope the reporter who replaces him is more balance.
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A more balanced comment might have put things right, if pointed at the mods.
But, that wasn’t the intension was it ?
Gotta talk up that investment portfolio or the pensions at the BBC won’t look so good. Look out for a Black clone.
Nothing to do with his rule-breaking advocacy work oh no:
“unquestionable evidence of a close relationship between Richard Black and advocacy group Stakeholder Forum. He has evidently been working closely with them and even ready to “pitch to the Beeb” on their behalf, thereby using our public money to help Stakeholder Forum with their propaganda aims for the RIO+20 conference.”
http://blackswhitewash.com/2012/06/21/richard-black-so-what-is-he-actually-doing-in-rio/
Nothing to see here, move along . . . .
ocean conservation issues . . hmm. . euphemism for a set of concrete socks?
I do hope that Dick becomes an ‘Ocean Elder’, just like Branson.
Just think how much easier we can sleep at night knowing that our fragile oceans are in such good hands.
The BBC will not be the same without him
dogald wrote: “it seems that the CBC here in Canada have been ‘interviewing’ warmists rather a lot recently.”
The media is controlled by The Team. They’re everywhere. Probably watching you right now.
eyesonu says:
August 31, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Black, Mann, Hanson, and one other I can’t think of his name at the moment, they all look alike. Is there some kind of genic link?
You mean Black, Mann, Hansen and Schmidt – Yes they all do look strangely similar.
Keith AB says:
August 31, 2012 at 1:16 pm
Gotta talk up that investment portfolio or the pensions at the BBC won’t look so good. Look out for a Black clone.
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I hear Michael Mann is available………..