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.
I nominate Willis.
+ a million
+ another million here. wonder how long the cagw meme would last with willis at the helm of climate science information distribution to the public. 🙂
Read the headline. “Joke of the Week, NYT Climate Change Editor Job”. I thought, this isn’t even a cartoon by Josh. Then I re-read the same thing. SURPRISE it said the same thing. (No wait, in “newspeak” this sort of JOB which is a JOKE and a JOKE are the same thing!)
The NY Times employs fact-checkers. Newspapers also have deadlines.
How is AW’s BREAKING NEWS paper from 2012 going BTW?
Facts have have a known liberal bias and timeliness doesn’t seem to be one of AW’s strongsuits (or facts for that matter). They are looking for an entrepreneurial type and AW’s startup journal Open Atmospheric Society has to be a feather in his cap. Well, maybe we don’t want to mention that after all.
“The NY Times employs fact-
checkersfakers.The New York Times uses the same accounting techniques the paper critiques
Climategate/Wikileaks
The Hypocrisy of the New York Times
Strikes me the NYT hasn’t come along much since the halcyon days when Jayson Blair was their star reporter.
“…the politics of the climate debate.”
Because there can be no scientific debate from the warmists side, because they believe computer model output is more important than data, or from the skeptics side, because the warmists refuse to entertain any heretical notions.
Change.org is a website where you can start a petition for almost anything. Eric, start a petition for the NYT to select Janice to be the editor of the NYT climate section. What fun. I will sign.
“News ways to tell this vital story”. Apparently the “old ways” didn’t get the message across. Oh dear!
New York Times’ Top Shareholder Is a Clinton Foundation Donor
A rundown of the many connections between the Times and the Clintons
http://freebeacon.com/politics/new-york-times-top-shareholder-is-a-clinton-foundation-donor/
I penned this one awhile back:
http://dailybail.com/home/hillary-clintons-climate-plan-cronyism-gone-wild.html
…extreme bias preferred.
The Time’s likely trying to keep up with the Washington Post, which runs at least one alarmist story per day. WaPo embarrassed the Times by getting way ahead of it on Wattergate and the Times hasn’t forgotten.
It sounds like the Times is looking to hire a good science fiction writer or a good story teller able to tell spooky stories around the campfire that hold the audience’s interest. Whether those stories are true or not isn’t important.