From the “cloak and dagger journalism for hire” department comes this today from EnergyInDepth and Katie Brown, PhD
In a stunning admission, Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF), today openly admitted that the Rockefellers are pouring millions of dollars into “media” organizations like InsideClimate News (ICN) and projects at Columbia University School of Journalism with a specific mission and outcome in mind.
In an interview with Reuters responding to questions about the RFF climate agenda and mission, Wasserman flatly states:
“No specific company was targeted in our push to drive better public understanding and better climate policy…..We supported public interest journalism to better understand how the fossil fuel industry was dealing with the reality of climate science internally and publicly,” Wasserman said. (emphasis added)
Since the Columbia School of Journalism began partnering with RFF, the school has insisted that the Rockefeller foundations – both RFF and the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation (RBF) – had nothing to do with the content of the series making erroneous claims about ExxonMobil. Here’s what the Columbia School of Journalism and ICN have been saying over the past few months:
- Dean of the Graduate School at Columbia School of Journalism Steve Coll: “The fact is that this reporting was not subject to any influence or control by the funders.”
- ICN: “Donors who support our award-winning environmental journalism do not have access to our editorial process or decision-making.”
- Columbia School of Journalism Review: “Both the Times and Coll have reiterated that the project’s funders had a hands-off relationship with its journalism.”
- Columbia Energy and Environment Fellowship Project website: “The Energy & Environment Fellowship Project is an intensive, full-time investigative reporting opportunity for four recent graduates of Columbia Journalism School. The fellows work independently and in teams to rigorously examine issues related to the environment and energy resources on an international level.”
Energy In Depth has worked to expose exactly this kind of shady “journalism” for many years, uncovering clear conflicts of interest when the mainstream media would not. In fact, EID was one of the first to expose the fact that RBF and RFF had funded the Columbia School of Journalism hit pieces, as that information initially wasn’t disclosed.
EID also called attention to the fact that these very same foundations also funded anti-ExxonMobil series published by ICN, which came out within days of the LA Times piece – and as the National Review pointed out after all this came to light, “The little that is known about InsideClimate News raises questions about conflicts of interest as well as about the publication’s ability, and proclivity, to report fairly and without bias.”
Only about a month later the RBF funded a study at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies suggesting that “corporate funding” to more than 160 so-called “climate counter movement” institutions was largely responsible for skepticism about climate science.
When the Columbia series originally appeared in the LA Times, it noted that the reporters were from the Columbia School of Journalism, but the disclosure of RBF and RFF funding was nowhere to be found.
Full story here:
http://energyindepth.org/national/rockefellers-admit-paying-for-exxonknew-media-coverage/
And with all that million$ of money, some climate haters (Miriam you know who you are) have a cow when I asked for donations to send me to AGU15.
Maybe I’ll ask again, just to tick them off. Hmm. OK.
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The Rockefellers fund just about every AGW/Agenda 21 “charity”in the world.
I even wrote a blog about that at http://thedemiseofchristchurch.com/2015/08/15/the-rockefellers-who-they-fund-from-their-web-site/
The Rockefellers do not have a good history with the strategy of their “investments” as attested by their enthusiasm for Hitler’s eugenics project. Check this out: Rockefellers Funded German Eugenics in 1920’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL8UOD1gVFE
Check the video at 54 mins and 12 secs.
Or try Googling Rockefeller Eugenics
My Agenda 21 leaning city receives substantial cash after joining the Rockefeller’s 100 Resilient Cities program.
No one seems to be asking what the Rockefeller’s will demand at the end of the day for their “investment”
Cheers
Roger
http://www.thedemiseofchristchurch.com
I’d like to help fund some journalism projects. Specifically, I’d like to fund some ambush journalism catching warmists at the fuel pump filling up, and explain why it’s OK for them but not for the rest of us. Wouldn’t it be hilarious to catch weepy Bill in the act?
“Please consider support of WUWT’s mission with a donation here” … http://www.surfacestations.org/donate.htm
Come on ExxonMobil … cough it up!
“Dean of the Graduate School at Columbia School of Journalism Steve Coll: ‘The fact is that this reporting was not subject to any influence or control by the funders’.”
If, as is regularly charged, money for skeptics corrupts those skeptic’s and biases their work toward false conclusions, how is it that there is no connection between funding sources, the purity of true believers and biases in their work? How can anyone claim that funders have no influence or control over an endeavor when continued (future) funding hinges on an endeavor pleasing to the funding source?
“You’re up, Twinkletoes! If we really hate your dance, you can expect a really big tip and an invitation to come back and do it again!”
Bingo! Especially the funder is the government.
Leftists consider themselves to be incorruptible. Which is why they are allowed to do things that is forbidden to everyone else.
Why would EXON be against Renewables? WHY. It does not take a genius to realize that Renewables actually increase the demand for NG and Oil. Even Robert Kennedy knows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcm1gmPL50s
Flirty fishing in safe space constrains the population by a factor of 3.
They’re waiting on it; a new transcedence of ‘Advent’.
Ment to the link ‘uncertanties in climate change’
Leftists define right and wrong based solely on whether or not they benefit.
When I first saw that sign, I could have sworn that the first line read “This rump”.
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Done!
Aren’t these the same folks who helped establish our current allopathic medical syndrome too?
Sadly, Exxon now says climate change is real and needs addressed, meaning millions will be left in poverty in third world countries. But what’s a few million poor people when the planet needs saving?
Few people can claim responsibility for America’s rise to greatness more than JDR, The generation of Rockefellers that are making this decision have basically accomplished nothing more than being born into a family that has lived off the success of their ancestors. JDR can lay claim to saving the whales, what can they lay claim to? Spending their great grandfather’s money? How Pathetic, How Ayn Randian, how Lillian and Phillip Reardon (Characters in Atlas Shrugged). If these parasites could have taken the money they were given and developed an alternative energy source that was commercially viable, then they might have a point, but they didn’t. I only hope they take all their money and invest in wind and solar, so they will soon be bankrupt, and recorded in the history books as the greatest fools and their money, right along side George Vanderbuilt.
Well, I expect to see a lot of climate alarmists raising the flag over private money going to push an agenda here. /s
JDR standardized and made Kerosene safe, killing the whale oil industry. Saving the whales, saving human lives and creating countless jobs. He then refined the “waste” petroleum not used for Kerosene, and created gasoline. Gasoline allowed for the internal combustion engine, the automobile and countless jobs and quality of life improvements. The price of oil, kerosene and gasoline collapsed while he was being attacked for being a monopolist. JDR’s fuel allowed us to defeat the Axis in WWII. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they didn’t have what FDR gave the US. These parasitic 3rd and 4th generation removed trust fund welfare recipients have done nothing for what they have been given, and they smear the person that made everything they have possible. That is what is wrong with progressive liberal politics, they are being driven who are used to living off others, offer no real solutions to anything, and because of their inferiority and insecurities are susceptible to clueless sycophants’ flattery and manipulation.
I think you meant “what JDR gave the US”, not “what FDR gave the US”?