It seems shakeups in green reporting are all the rage this year. First we heard that NYT is closing its environment desk: New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk
Then last Friday late in the day (5:10PM EST) we got an offhanded announcement that NYT is closing its Green Blog.
Now today we learn that WaPo is moving out their long time eco-reporter from the environment beat, reportedly over conflict of interest issues.
From Junkscience.com:
Victory: JunkScience forces Juliet Eilperin out of WaPo environment beat
JunkScience has been after her since 2009, with WaPo ombudsman support. No doubt she will deny… just like she did her conflict of interest, until it became too much even for the Post.
Click for the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Even the outgoing WaPo ombudsman Patrick Pexton, in one of his last acts, agreed with JunkScience.
I read the WP a lot and comment there frequently. She was always more advocate than reporter. She often tried to make her reports fair, but you could tell she was struggling. It’s the assumptions that are ingrained in the reports that gave her away. People like her start with a system of belief and they assume no one notices. I wish her well, but really, her reports were more like editorials than objective journalism.
Sigh. When I was a kid and up until I was a graduate student I held science in a “above the rest of society” view. After 2 years of graduate physics research I realized that just isn’t true. Now, I see climate science taken to the utmost political levels of degradation and prostitution and it makes me sick as a scientist. Even my University colleagues that are not climate scientist are poisoned by this. At least some of these news outlets are recognizing the problems and dealing with it.
Now if only the BBC would get rid of the arch alarmist Harrabin…
She’s being assigned to cover the White House, which puts a different spin on things as reported by JunkScience.
She’s not being demoted, she’s going to cover the White House from now on. Figures. WaPo probably saw her conflicts of interest as a feature, not a bug.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha……… I know it’s a sin to gloat, but I just can’t help it!!
Juliet Eilperin out of WaPo environment beat
and into the White House beat. (Politico)
To me that seems like a promotion.
Look, everything is ok. She is a “progressive”. Conflict of interest, heck, even outright lying is perfectly acceptable if it is “for the cause”. There is nothing so hypocritical than the American “progressive”. They have a multibillion dollar “environmental” industry to protect here.
jorgekafkazar says:
March 4, 2013 at 11:55 am
“She’s being assigned to cover the White House, which puts a different spin on things as reported by JunkScience.”
That would be her natural “home.”
I guess she’s going from one lalaland to another…
OK. I’ll bite. What on earth is that on her head? 🙂
We finally have proof positive of a conspiracy involving major media and an organization on the Left. No, I will not excuse WAPO. I will not because the matter was forced upon them by their ombudsman. The duty to “nip in the bud” this kind of activity lay with the lady’s editor and, therefore, with WAPO management. As for the Leftist organization, does anyone doubt that they lie, cheat, and steal to win?
Bring it on Associated Press! Your Seth Berenstein is next. The folks must surely realize that the AP feeds stories to all member papers, which is essentially all papers, and the employed enviro, er, reporter is Mr. Berenstein. He is consequently a widely published individual. The AP thus efficiently disseminates IPCC, etc. propaganda/scare stories through it’s reporter, written by it’s reporter, to hundreds of small papers whose only source of wire-based environment reporting is from the AP. That is scary.
Perhaps there might be an opening for Mike MacCracken, the seemingly idle Director of the prestigiously well funded Climate Institute since he spends most of his time peddling Connolley’s Wikipedia and the IPCC on Yahoo?
global warming causes that
noloctd says:
March 4, 2013 at 12:08 pm
OK. I’ll bite. What on earth is that on her head? 🙂
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Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s climate change wot dunnit !!!
From UAH satellite monitoring (Roy Spencer) :
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for February, 2013 is +0.18 deg. C, a large decrease from January’s +0.50 deg. C.
noloctd, Vidal Sassoon has stated global warming is causing the serious frizzies. Get used to more Catastrophic Hair Change. I myself have suffered it over the years.
Sending her to the White House beat is quite a plum assignment for any journalist, so conflict of interest on the environment beat has worked out nicely for Eilperin. Her husband Andrew Light is big with Podesta’s Center for American Progress (sic). He is supposed to be an expert in ethics (PhD and Professor of Ethics), yet she couldn’t seem to get any proper advice on disclosure and conflict of interest.
There’s a potential change at EPA, too. From Waste and Recycling News:
“Update (10:35 a.m.): President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to be the next administrator of the U.S. EPA.”
http://www.wasterecyclingnews.com/article/20130304/NEWS08/130309984
Extreme climate disruption?
Eilperin? She believed and reported unquestioningly whatever the latest alarming fashion was in climate science, so she is already a suitable expert for gobbling up uncritically what our Prez the Barack does so readily dictate.
She doesn’t need any briefing on background for her new assignment . . . . . a smart WaPo cost cutting reassignment.
John
Oblarny loves women around him, doesn’t he.
beesaman says:
March 4, 2013 at 11:46 am
Now if only the BBC would get rid of the arch alarmist Harrabin…
The BBC would need to totally empty their building of staff to make a difference. Patten, the DG did say today that the BBC can’t go on like this so they are probably going to become even more advocate and activist.
Why does that woman have a poodle on her head?
Who LISTENS to these self deluded fools? Answer: Self deluded fools. Qui Pro Quo…