A massive global grooming programme aimed at mostly mainstream media involving climate catastrophism and Net Zero promotion is detailed in a recently published report from the green billionaire-funded Internews’s Earth Journalism Network (EJN). The work is a shocking insight into the corruption of independent, investigative journalism. At one point the report observes “a concerning trend among journalists in some countries still seeking to ‘balance’ their climate change reporting”. The report shows clearly that the green billionaires are calling most of the shots in promoting stories of Net Zero-inspired climate collapse. It is noted that they may fund journalists “to cover stories in a particular subject area, determined by funder interests and goals”.
Over the last 20 years the tax-efficient billionaire foundations have stepped into the funding gaps left by declining circulation and advertising sales across mainstream media. It is noted by the EJN that journalists “overwhelmingly agreed” that support from external funding organisations was “essential” to enabling their climate and environmental reporting. Any journalist can apply to be a member of the EJN and the “primary benefit” is said to be access to grant funding for stories and “training opportunities”. The operation claims over 25,000 members in 200 countries.
The list of EJN funders is a long one and includes many well-known supporters of climate fear-mongering work. Included is the European Climate Foundation, heavily supported by Michael Bloomberg and Extinction Rebellion paymaster Sir Christopher Hohn. Other supporters include Tides, Gulbenkian, Oak, Packard, Climate Justice Resilience, MacArthur and Rockefeller. Helping out with taxpayer money are political and government organisations including the United Nations and the British Foreign Office.
The EJN report is said to provide a novel, truly global benchmark of the current state of climate and environmental journalism. Unhappily this would appear to be true. As we have seen in many past issues of the Daily Sceptic, very few ‘grassroots’ green operations can survive without elite billionaire funding. The same is true of media coverage. Much of the global barrage of climate catastrophe reporting would not exist without this vital outside lifeline. It is obvious that the cash handouts have a clear political agenda, namely an elite-mandated Net Zero global collectivisation made easier by the growth of supranational organisations.
The report makes the obvious point that climate and environmental journalists have long been criticised for lacking objectivity. However the “literature” is said to suggest that journalism as a whole “has been moving away from objectivity as a professional practice in the digital landscape”. Some researchers are said to have pointed to a need to think ‘beyond journalism’ and to formulate a broader definition.
It might be argued that if you are being paid to be a poodle, you are already ‘beyond journalism’. As 1984 author George Orwell once wrote: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; anything else is public relations.”
Alas, it would seem that some climate scepticism remains, despite all the best funding efforts. The scientific opinion that humans control the climate thermostat by burning hydrocarbons is disputed by some of the finest scientific minds in the world. Fudged figures, pseudoscientific weather attributions and the huge downplaying of the role of natural variations do not convince everyone. According to the EJN, this means that in many countries, media audiences are being led to believe that the causes of climate change are not clear. Certainly it might be said that the causes of climate change are unclear to believers in the scientific discovery process, such as the 2022 winner of the Nobel physics prize Dr. John Clauser. He said recently that the link between temperature and carbon dioxide was a “crock of crap”. Or the distinguished Princeton Emeritus Professor William Happer, who when asked to choose between ‘climate scam’ or ‘hoax’, said he preferred ‘scam’, but could live with ‘hoax’.
For the billionaire-funded EJN this is “highly problematic”, since widespread public understanding of the causes and impacts of climate change “is so urgently needed to support climate action on a global scale”.
Alas, again, the report seemed to find some disturbing evidence that some Comrades are not fully on board with the wishes of Big Climate Brother and the ‘settled’ science promoted by the Ministry of Truth. Citizens are reminded that at the time of the Great COVID-19 Pandemic, “media in many countries clearly aligned with government positions on vaccine mandates and lockdown orders – often under the uniting phrase of ‘we are all in this together’”. On the basis of this example, it is suggested that journalists should be less hesitant to advocate the climate message in the ‘public interest’.
Given that the newsrooms of the world are full of journalists trying to hide their manic support for cloth mask wearing, implausible computer modelling, years of social distancing and school closures, untested and novel medicines, economy-destroying lockdowns and crippling public debt, there might be some concern that another science-lite campaign could eventually lead to more grovelling public accountability, laughable scorn and diminished credibility.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
“”the corruption of independent, investigative journalism””
I tend to disagree. It isn’t a case of corruption in my view, it’s the replacement of seasoned, experienced (ie older) journalists with the bright young things out of Universities – hacktivists.
They have a narrative – facts etc are irrelevant – and media output must comply with the [current] narrative on pain of ‘fact-check’.
“”[Adam] Rubenstein makes some eyebrow-raising claims. His article is a damning indictment not just of the New York Times itself, but also of the wider culture in liberal-elite circles that is now totally intolerant of differing viewpoints. For instance, after the Cotton uproar, an internal Slack channel called ‘op-sensitivity’ was created ‘in which editors were encouraged to raise concerns about one another’s stories’. He also recalls how a ‘friend’ contacted his girlfriend, asking her to repudiate him. These are not the normal interactions of a healthy society – they are 21st-century struggle sessions.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/28/a-woke-struggle-session-at-the-new-york-times/
“”I left my job at The Guardian because I was no longer allowed to say what I wanted to say
I suffered the consequences of expressing a view contrary to the liberal orthodoxy””
https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/the-guardian-freedom-of-speech-suzanne-moore-b1099386.html
Diversity all the way; save in thought.
“”newsrooms of the world are full of journalists trying to hide their manic support””
That was undoubtedly true at one time. I’m sure many remember the infamous BBC seminar in 2006 where they decided on the ideas of settled science and false balance – giving a sceptic a voice was out of the question. I’m equally sure many remember the chicanery and the expense of trying to keep the list of attendees a secret.
Today they are quite open about the bias. At the BBC AGW etc isn’t just an hypothesis, it’s the gospel truth:
“”What is climate change? A really simple guide
Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, with more intense heatwaves and rising sea-levels among the consequences. Things are likely to worsen in the coming decades, but scientists argue urgent action can limit the worst effects of climate change.””
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24021772
And in the case of organisations like the BBC there is the educational aspect. The BBC provides a huge amount of material for schoolchildren – all approved for publication and use.
“”BBC withdraws educational video that said there are 100+ gender identities after backlash
The film has been “retired” from the BBC’s Teach website””
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/world/bbc-withdraws-educational-video-that-said-there-are-100-gender-identities-after-backlash-302343/
“”How dare the BBC teach children that there are ‘100 genders’?””
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/dare-bbc-teach-children-100-genders/
There is a nasty nexus between the activists in the media and the activists in the classromms and lecture theatres. When you have students supporting a murderous terrorist outfit and claiming that it’s no different to the Vietnam protests, you know something’s up.
Good synopsis.
Mind-boggling how the left went from “make love not war” to pro-war and pro-murder positions, and it was against genital mutilation before it was for it.
I am always looking for an encapsulation of the nuttiness I see around me, and 21st-century struggle session is a beauty!
A recent study found that college age kids prefer to get a degree in advocacy journalism rather that objective journalism. As the age demographic shifts so does the morality of the reporting.
As Biden said “We choose truth over facts.”
I forgot about that. Thanks for the refresh.
when did he say that?
I think it was about 2 years ago, JZ. During a speech. I remember it pretty clearly too – but I don’t have the links anymore.
August 8, 2019 at the Iowa State Fair.
“Facts, my dear Sancho, are the enemy of truth.” – Don Quixote de La Mancha
One of the hostages that was recently freed by an Israeli raid, was being held in the home of an Al Jazeera “reporter”.
The other day CNN made the statement that the hostages were “released”.
“They have a narrative – facts etc are irrelevant – and media output must comply with the [current] narrative on pain of ‘fact-check’.”
That’s a form of corruption.
Quite some time ago here on WUWT, Kip Hansen put up a link to Covering Climate Now. He specifically pointed out their Best Practices page. Their Making the Climate Connection page seems to be new since Kip’s original post.
On edit a trip through Covering Climate Now via the WayBack Machine starts at 2019.
Thanks, good insight into the merger of money, greed, and stupidity. Considering the closing paragraph, I searched for how much Covid Relief money was in play: one year ago the Associated Press reported that $280 Billion was stolen, and $123 Billion was wasted or misspent. Throw in stolen or misspent Net Zero money and the dysfunctional cultural detour of humanity from progress, like food, clothes, and housing, is truly staggering. Where I live it was the coldest month of May in more than 20 years, no thanks to Billionaires.
It might be valid to assume that some large fraction of government debt is stolen, as when a $trillion is being “borrowed” every 100 days or so, is there really an intention to pay it back?
No. Rolling it over is the best a person can expect…until bankruptcy, of course.
‘Over the last 20 years the tax-efficient billionaire foundations…’
This would seem to be an issue worth looking into. Is this the same ‘code’ that enabled Zuckerbucks?
The millionaires and billionaires own the media, control the politicians with campaign contributions, and the universities with grants.
And that’s why we are in the predicament we find ourselves in.
Leftwing Propagandists are creating climate change False Realities which are causing politicians to make very bad decisions about the energy powering our lives, and are costing society dearly from the wasted climate change money being spent.
All funded and directed by Leftwing Billionaires who seek to buy control of the Western world with their bankrolls. And no doubt, some of these billionaires profit handsomely from Net Zero.
If the United States gets a majority Republican House and Senate in the coming elections in November, one of their priorities should be to investigate the turmoil and harm caused by Leftwing Billionaire activism. They are causing a lot of people a lot of trouble, and a stop should be put to it.
The Right-wing millionaires and billionaires are just as guilty. They aren’t going to miss out on possibly trillions in profits.
Texas is right-wing and leads the nation in combined wind and solar.
https://www.kxan.com/weather-traffic-qas/texas-leads-the-country-in-combined-wind-solar-renewable-energy/
‘The Right-wing millionaires and billionaires are just as guilty.’
If they’re truly ‘right wing’, then by definition they aren’t engaging in any form of collective planning or coercive implementation, are they?
Crony capitalists aren’t right-wing, they’re fascists, i.e., socialists.
The wing thing is simple minded. Politics is more complicated than that. People should discuss/debate ideas without accusing the other side of being extremist. I suggest very few people are extremists. Of course, once the insults start, it just escalates, like battles in marriages and businesses and every other human organization. Eventually, somebody comes along who tones down the arguments- and some progress can be made.
‘The wing thing is simple minded.’
Thanks, but I don’t think so.
Political parties are like a death curse some powerful dark personage put upon the USA. I wrote “like” as in the same as if such a curse was the origin, not because I believe that curses from individual have any mystical power. “Curses” from powerful groups have consequences.
I don’t have a problem with political parties, or any voluntary aggregation of individuals seeking to achieve common ends. But it should make it clear, notwithstanding what we all ‘learned’ in elementary school, that the Constitution’s separation of powers is not really an effective defense against Federal tyranny. The real safeguard is the free people of the individual states, who despite what the Federal government would like you to believe, are the true sovereigns within our Constitutional Republic.
“the Constitution’s separation of powers is not really an effective defense against Federal tyranny.”
This is true.
We’ll see how successful we are at extracting ourselves from the current Joe Biden Federal tyranny on Nobember 5, 2024.
I don’t think so, either.
“People should discuss/debate ideas without accusing the other side of being extremist.”
Tell that to the extremists on the Left.
The Radical Left does not want to discuss or debate political topics. They already have the answers in their minds, and want the rest of us to comply, otherwise lots of critcism is heaped on those who do not comply.
You are naive if you think radical leftists want to be fair to their political opponents. No, radical leftists want to shut their political opponents up, by censoring them, or putting them in jail.
Have a discussion/debate about that with a radical leftist.
I’m certainly not defending the left. But there are crazies across the political spectrum. I’ve spent 50 years arguing against crazy enviros who want to end forestry and now I argue with climate whack jobs here in Wokeachusetts. I only wish there were some “conservatives” of any variety here so I could hang out with them, though I wouldn’t agree with all their ideas. I happen to like left ideas like social security and medicare. And I like conservative ideas like the right to bear arms (though I don’t have any) and efficient government with low taxes. There are good ideas and bad ideas on both sides.
One problem with trying to hold a rational debate is that it’s impossible to do so when the people in the debate live in two separate and incompatible realities (i.e. neither accepts any facts provided by the other as a basis for discussion), and difficult to do so when they have radically fundamentally different ideas about the purpose of government.
“Right-wing” is just anyone who disagrees with the Left. If you disagree with Sen Sanders, Reps AOC or others of their ilk, you are right wing.
The Far Right “won” the EU Parliamentary elections. Except that “Far Right” is the title applied by the Far Left media.
You are correct, but that’s because ‘we’ have allowed the Left to control the language. They dropped ‘socialist’ and ‘progressive’ for ‘liberal’, leaving true liberals with meaningless labels like ‘conservative’, which was formerly applicable to divine right monarchs. Similarly, we’ve allowed the Left to get away with classifying fascism and national socialism as ‘Far Right’ instead of their accurate categorization as ‘Far Left’.
I don’t see it happening soon, but perhaps someday we’ll actually elect politicians that understand what true liberalism means and that our government was intended to be a Constitutional republic, not a democracy.
“Right-wing” is just anyone who disagrees with the Left.”
Exactly.
Heh, I hope they got their moneys worth in the European elections. I’m not going to say their marketing campaign hasn’t been effective, its just a shame nobody likes the dogfood they are selling.
The events of the past few years has led me to see we are being pushed in a
bad direction by the WEF. It really took a hard line with Obama then with the election
of Trump it increased in intensity. Now with the Biden and the open border it’s
very obvious to me the fascist in the WEF are pushing hard to destroy what’s left of the
country..
The climate change/net zero narrative, hate Trump all rolled into one movement, and it’s
not good.
The US caused the immigration from Latin America with its drug problem that financed the drug gangs that took over the countries where the immigrants are fleeing from.
Donald Trump was one of the biggest employer of illegal aliens at his golf courses and hotels. They were hard-working, cheap, and could easily be intimidated.
The issue with the border is about control and regulation and has been
for generations. The Basque herders in ID were always the best, but now
all the herders are Peruvians. I know nothing directly about Trump or
his business operations. He ran for office and worked directly on
a border wall, that was one of the first things the Biden administration
stopped along with energy. Trump allowed LNG export and exploration
and production on federal land. Biden stopped all of that in concert with
the WEF. That and covid were about power and control…
“I know nothing directly about Trump or
his business operations.”
Neither does, scvblwxq. He has a bad case of TDS and thinks CNN tells him the truth.
I’ve got an idea! Let’s legalize fentanyl! That’ll fix everything!
/s
On a more serious note, maybe we could reverse Biden’s EOs and put an end to the Federal financial inducements that are drawing these people in.
So communist terrorists had nothing to do with it?
Trump does not hire “illegal” aliens. All the Trump properties hire only those with valid “green cards”/proper work permits/visas.
scvblwxq is very confused.
Reportedly there are also many thousands of such persons from China crossing the open southern border.
Gotta hand it to those South Americans, disguising themselves as Chinese to facilitate entry!
About 30,000 Chinese illegal immigrants have entered the United States since October.
That’s about the size of a military division. Maybe we have the First Chinese Division entering the United States.
“You guys all know what you need to do once we give the signal”, Xi says.
Trump properties use E-Verify so how does that qualify as employing illegals?
That is one hell of a report.
One only needs to take a look at the 3 hostages rescued by the IDF who were being
held by a “journalist” who worked for the “Palestine Chronicle” . He was being
bankrolled by a US based foundation. Jew hate, Trump hate, saving the planet
Net-Zer0, the connections are obvious to me.
Pursuit of the One World Order.
Balance is the very core of journalism, or should be. Everything else is advocacy no matter which side of the fence you sit on.
The concept of balance in the msm is to have two slightly different alarmists on the panel. One who says we are all heading to the cliff and one who says it’s not too late to do something about it (halting Co2 emissions etc). See, balanced! Do i need to refer to Chomskis ‘manufacturing consent’? It is so bleeding obvious..
“it is suggested that journalists should be less hesitant to advocate the climate message in the ‘public interest’.”
Therein lies half of the problem. What woke journalism school teaches that journalism is a advocacy sport? Too many I suspect.
The other part of the story is that journalist rarely have the background to understand the pros and cons of the the issue. At the same time they have a job to do so they fall back on reporting that turns out to be an op-ed masquerading as news.
They wouldn’t protect their snouts in the taxpayer trough with the Green gravy train would they?
Climate donations ‘soar’ as coalition attacks targets (msn.com)
I’m shocked! shocked I tell you!
This is a real problem. I have never felt at ease with these foundations. They are throwing a whale of a lot of money around, are they accountable to anyone? I don’t know. Much of what I see is nothing more than buying people off to spread their agenda.
This sentence is concerning.
“Over the last 20 years the tax-efficient billionaire foundations have stepped into the funding gaps left by declining circulation and advertising sales across mainstream media.”
What exactly is tax-efficient billionaire foundation?
i don’t know but I don’t like it.
Well you set up a green tax deductible foundation that promotes your green slushfunding/subsidy mining side of things. It’s called green sustainability.
“are they accountable to anyone?”
No.
Not yet, anyway. Maybe next year.
journalists “overwhelmingly agreed” that support from “Big Money” is essential
Try living in China, North Korea, Russia or the many tin pot dictatorships around the world. You will be invited to reside in a gulag or equivalent for questioning the “truth” as defined by the leader. We are not there yet, but headed in that direction rapidly. –