Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Extinction Rebellion is incensed that New York Times isn’t providing enough coverage of the climate crisis.
Arrests at protest over New York Times’ ‘unacceptable’ climate coverage
Protesters block avenue between Port Authority and NYT
Extinction Rebellion calls for better coverage of climate crisisAmanda Holpuch in New York
@holpuch
Sun 23 Jun 2019 06.14 AESTA climate change protest orchestrated by the Extinction Rebellion activist group briefly blocked Eighth Avenue in New York on Saturday afternoon, between the Port Authority transit hub and the home of the New York Times.
The New York police department (NYPD) said 70 people were arrested as they called for more effective media coverage of the dangers of climate change, in a dramatic demonstration that saw people stage a die-in in front of the newspaper building and disrupt traffic in midtown Manhattan.
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One protester, Donna Nicolino, told the Guardian she was ready to be arrested, because “we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change as the crisis it is”.
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“The lack of coverage of the climate crisis is completely unacceptable,” said Becca Trabin, a member of Extinction Rebellion’s press and fundraising teams. “It’s a public safety crisis on a global scale.”
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A spokeswoman for the New York Times, Danielle Rhoades Ha, said that in 2018 the newspaper published 795 articles about the climate, including investigative stories and dispatches from across the globe about the impact of climate change.
“There is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers understand climate change than The New York Times,” Rhoades Ha said.
“We fully support this group’s right to express their point of view, even when we disagree with it as it relates to our coverage.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/22/new-york-times-protest-climate-crisis-coverage
For once I agree with the New York Times. In my opinion the NYT has an almost unbroken track record of publishing ridiculous climate stories and even occasionally promoting violence against climate skeptics.
I mean its kind of funny when a group of green fanatics turns on another group of greens, accuses their rivals of not being ideologically committed enough, but what exactly do Extinction Rebellion and The Guardian expect NYT to do, to up their coverage of climate change?
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As sung by Florence and the Machine: Too much is never enough. Ridiculous fanatics attacking a rediculous “news” paper.
The Guardian isn’t doing enough, either. Several times a day, articles other than climate change run, thereby vomiting all over your movement. Protest them next.
Its fear that they will not be able to play along and be ostracised.
“The New York police department (NYPD) said 70 people were arrested
… (in a) dramatic demonstration that saw people stage a die-in ”
for a die in surely it would have been more appropriate to put them in the morgue refrigerators/freezers.
Going crazy here in OZ, as well. The Sydney City Council have backed their mayor in declaring a “Climate Emergency”. I cannot believe how this scam has now evolved into a mass hysteria.
A few days ago, Canada’s parliament declared the country to be in a state of “climate emergency”. It was a non-binding, no action required vote, undertaken to show that the official opposition are CC-action shirkers for purposes of the fall election campaign. But the average voter has grown tired of being told that a Carbon Tax is required to make their winters colder to reverse 120 centuries of glacier retreat, so likely the plan backfired…..
They never even notice that the Times is in the tree-killing business.
Yes, but just as certain jurisdictions take credit for ending polluting industries that were going to be mothballed anyway (I’m looking at you, West Germany), the fact is while the old NYT Saturday edition was the size and weight of a Buick, the decline in readership means they can safely say: see, we don’t kill as many trees now. Give us Green Props.
+20
What will they do when they realize that they’ll have to ally with Trump to produce a domestic economy, instead of burning all that oil to have items shipped from China and Mexico, become “National Socialists”