Guest essay by Eric Worrall
New York Times is advertising for a chief editor to head up their new climate team. But in my opinion the job description is very telling about the kind of service they want their climate editor to provide.
The New York Times is looking for a climate change editor
Drone footage that shows Greenland melting away. Long narratives about the plight of climate refugees, from Louisiana to Bolivia and beyond. A series on the California drought. Color-coded maps that show how hot it could be in 2060.
The New York Times is a leader in covering climate change. Now The Times is ramping up its coverage to make the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible to a huge audience around the globe.
We are looking for an editor to lead this dynamic new group. We want someone with an entrepreneurial streak who is obsessed with finding new ways to connect with readers and new ways to tell this vital story.
The coverage should encompass: the science of climate change; the politics of climate debates; the technological race to find solutions; the economic consequences of climate change; and profiles of fascinating characters enmeshed in the issues.
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Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/jobs/nyt-climate-change-editor.html
Notice anything missing from the job description? Whatever happened to balanced journalism? If the New York Times had asked for applications from people “interested in getting to the bottom of the climate story”, of telling the truth, no matter which way it leads, I would have written a very different review of their job advertisement.
Well, believing that an educated non-scientist could be good at translating science facts for the general public, I applied! Thanks for the job tip, Eric 🙂
I’m only posting this for the record. (Just in case I am offered the job…. you will certainly hear about it here if I get it!)
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And, yes, oh, yes, Anthony (or rgbatduke — indeed, what has happened to that fine mind (if a bit frenetic of a writer at times)? I sure hope he is okay….. — YOU ARE MISSED, RGB!) would be a FINE editor of another climate publication. He has proven experience and success!
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What is all that junk above in this thread about “balanced reporting?” This isn’t a newspaper, silly. This is a “gee whiz” interesting things, privately hosted, climate blog, for Pete’s sake. Bring on the science realist point of view, WUWT — it is badly needed in this biased reporting environment!
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And about one of the finest moderators in blogland mistakenly posting after comments closed:
B — F — D.
IOW: So what?
That sickening SaulfromMontreal was just a mixed up little whiner who thought WUWT was his civil infraction hearing and he didn’t get his turn to talk — again. I’m glad he got shut out (by mistake). Couldn’t have happened to a finer rat.
Janice. I would love to see your application for the NY Times climate change editor. Only after they respond to you…you would be a good one (editor). Just sayin…
If you get to interview stage Janice please send the full story to Anthony 🙂
Aw, JPP and Eric — What gallant men you are. Thank you for honoring me with your respect and regard (that you think I might be good at that job was generous hearted and that you would say so was so kind!). Lol, yes, I will sound trumpet in bold and ALL CAPS if I get that job.
Well, JPP, I was writing my “Vision for Coverage Memorandum” for about 2 hours last night (I covered all the mentioned issues in the application announcement — including “what we will not publish” — I specifically mentioned Mr. Pachauri and items of that nature….. among other gossipy or political or other science-irrelevant angles — this type of article is GREAT for WUWT, but, my main goal for the NYT’s climate section would be science teaching). So, it is pretty long….. . Thank you for asking 🙂
I hope you assured them you would never mention Al Gore the Sex Poodle or Peter Gleick the misunderstood information gatherer and creator or Mikey Mann the borer of few trees.
That would be in bad taste…iykwim.
Hey Janice! That’s brilliant! I sure hope you get as far as an interview – I fear you are WAY too nice to get the actual job – However, might I suggest you take the opportunity of pointing out to them that if they want to turn their falling numbers around, the best way would be to go full-pelt into exposing the sc*m? (Read “a” or “u” into that asterisk. Both fit.) They could Lead the Way in telling their readers all the gory details!!!
Plenty of “catastrophic” stories in who-took-the-cash, monstrous rip-offs and much in the way of treasonous behavior. Politicians and scientists colluding with activists and selling out their country! Deals done (not so dirt cheap) behind closed doors!
You get the drift.
I do apologize for all the exclamation marks – I got carried away. 🙂
If you don’t read the news paper, you are un-informed. If you read the news paper, you are mis-informed.
Mark Twain
Cheers Roger
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
… an if you read the NYT you are ill-informed.
… an if you read the NYT you are
ill-informeda maroon.There, that should help.
It would be fair to say, in this particular case that upon reading one would not be informed in any useful way whatsoever
🙂
Roger
The New York Times advertisement for a new member to spin climate fear propaganda is an example of why people are turning off MSM .
There is absolutely no chance they would hire anyone that says … climate changes and humans have some impact however climate models are proven failures grossly exaggerating warming and natural climate variables are not even close to being overtaken by a trace gas very essential to life on earth .
Newspapers used to maintain credibility because they tried to balance stories and not be propaganda tools .
The New York times will be gone before the Artic is ice free .
I worry that the duties would include vetting the other articles and section lest any non-climate-change-PC facts slip through.
Moderators are site-appointed and –approved, not individuals expressing commentary.
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“The New York Times is looking for a ‘catastrophic climate change’ advocate”
Now, that’s about right.
Is the melanomas idiot that has tried to hide his identity above, the same DAN VELTRI that has applied for the ” New York Times ” Climate Editors post “? He gets my vote, idiots in Bull S//T out.
Of course they need an editor for the climate change story. If you do not edit it thoroughly, there is probably no story left / sarc
I thought Climate Scientists did all the climate editing that was needed.
So foolish of the NY Times. Extra CO2 has benefited the world. Where is the catastrophe in better performing plants?
Humans inventiveness has flourished in times of warming. Internet and computing be just one.
The New York Times is a leader in covering climate change. Now The Times is ramping up its coverage to make the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible to a huge audience around the globe.
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Syrias Assad and Turkeys Erdoghan are in charge already. Maybe some youngster with ISIS experience.
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No need to release.
Dear NYT,
You will have noticed that there has been an absolute barrage of climate propaganda for a long while from all sorts of sources. Yet in polls, climate change remains stubbornly near the bottom of peoples’ concerns. With typical NYT hubris, you think you alone can change this. It is this kind of hubris that will see you terminally financially underwater long before any of your Manhattan property is physically underwater.
One more thing. ‘What stories are we willing not to do?’ is different from the more normal form ‘not willing’, as in, say, ‘ We are not willing to vote for Hillary Clinton’. If I say ‘We are willing not to vote for Hillary Clinton’, it sounds like our vote, and likewise your stories or lack of them, can be bought.
Regards,
Charlie
PS Sorry if I upset anyone’s sensibilities at the NYT with that ‘not vote for Hillary’ talk.
But NYtimes’ already good at that:
‘Color-coded maps that show how hot it could be in 2060.’
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– Since a quarter of year the locations above 25°C on the weather maps here are tainted scarlet/ruby red.
Transatlantic climate change approach – what’s more to ask.
The cruise ship Crystal Serenity sailing into the village of Ulukhaktok on King William Island. The companion ice-breaker RSS Shackleton in front (and looks pretty small compared to Serenity). Taken from the helicopter.
https://my.yb.tl/CrystalSerenity/blog/view-image/large/19233/
Roald Amundsen sailed by here on August 16, 1905 and there was no sea ice here at that time either.
The most dangerous part of the trip for Serenity is coming up today and tomorrow when they go through the very shallow Dease Strait into Cambridge Bay / (Goja Haven) where Amundsen camped out to learn Inuit Arctic survival techniques. Franklin in 1821 and Simpson in 1838 had previously sailed boats in these waters in August when it is almost always ice-free.
Then there was the expedition led by Dr. Hoel in 1922, who reported that “so little ice has never before been noted”, among other observations which today would be “alarming”.
I’m sure they’ll find some nice young brainwashed liberal college grad to fill the position. It will be golden for NY Times if they get someone who actually has been ‘conditioned’ to believe the lie. It will be like employing someone of a faith based religions who just can’t understand how people can’t see that god is real.
The nice thing is this “first draft of history” will record the biblical collapse of the credibility of the liberal media.
“What should the team look like to get it done?”
WHAT? Seriously? Who the hell asks that on an application? What should you look like? Here’s one: what should you look like before applying for this job? Well, let’s see…..grabs mirror…..I should look like I am wearing a business suit from the waist up and not show my PJ bottoms and fuzzy slippers. I should comb my hair from it’s bed head appearance and attempt to tame the curls. I should look serious, determined to squash all resistance to anyone that voices an opinion not in line with my paycheck. I should be tall but not too tall, commanding yet demure and above all not look like a ball buster, yet be terrifying to my subordinates and competitors. In other words, I should look like this:
I want to apply and send back an edited version of their job summary and questions, covered in red pen with suggestions on their wording choices.
Their ad is way too long. It could have been shortened to something like the following:
“Climate whore wanted. Ability with the artful use of lies, emotionalism, and other irrational arguments is essential. No experience, or brains required.”
The NYT has a long history of reporting with a strong point of view. You highlighted this with the Ukraine famine case. There have been many others including embarrassing admissions that whole stories which fit the general viewpoint were made up.
Embarrassing admissions that did not lead to a change in practice. Why are so many Americans, Audtrailians, and Europeans
skeptical of their news media? They recognize what they are getting. Those who are not skeptical are flying blind.
Journalism when ranked with honorable professions falls slightly above child molestation, but certainly below armed robbery.
For antone who applies for this climate whore job should also include one question in the first line of their cover letter….where would we be without climate change,i.e. warming??
Whooops..anyone. More caffeine!
“the most important story in the world even more relevant, urgent and accessible”
BallBouncesTranslation: in spite of endless advocacy under our previous editor, the hoi polloi still think it’s unimportant, irrelevant, trivial, and difficult to understand.
“accessible” – dumbed down and a single PoV so readers don’t have to think about it.
How about that Raines fellow?
Andy Revkin – wasn’t this his function, if not job?
Maybe he’s just too honest .
I think there may well be something to that. He has been known to listen to the other side.
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They are really looking for a religion editor.
They are really looking for a religion promoter. a religion marketing agent, promoter, salesman/saleswomen/salesit and provocateur and propagandist.
Nothing, noting in the description at all says “journalism” or “honest research and report” ….
I think they did away with their religious editor years ago.
I guess, in a way, they want to bring him back.
an evangelist, or a ministry of “truth”, in the orwellian sense.