gazelle
06-25-2009, 06:32 AM
An article from a media insider about how the Aussie newspapers (and others owned by media baron Murdoch) are influenced by the anti-AGW lobbies: http://business.smh.com.au/business/how-the-carbon-lobby-blackens-media-coverage-20090609-c1fg.html?page=-1
Through lobby groups - the Minerals Council, the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) and the cleverly titled Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, which hopes to accelerate the greenhouse effect - the likes of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton stop real action on climate change.
Confirmation came this week when The Australian had the gall to trumpet a media award given by the oil and gas lobby group, APPEA, to editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell: "… the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper's coverage of climate change policy. For the first time, the judging panel presented the award to an editor rather than a reporter or columnist.
"Climate science was seen as a form of political correctness," McKnight says. "Many people have said if you want to know what Rupert Murdoch really thinks, read the editorial and [opinion] pages of the New York Post. If you do that on climate, you find a virulent platform for climate deniers. There were quite vicious attacks on Al Gore, for example. It gave a platform to Exxon-funded climate sceptics. It supported [former president George] Bush's rejection of Kyoto several times in editorials."
Then on May 9, 2007, apparently at the urging of son James, Murdoch announced News Corp would go carbon neutral by 2010.
We might have an unexpected ally in the Murdoch's!
Do you think their environment editors might be interested in the book?
Through lobby groups - the Minerals Council, the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) and the cleverly titled Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, which hopes to accelerate the greenhouse effect - the likes of Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton stop real action on climate change.
Confirmation came this week when The Australian had the gall to trumpet a media award given by the oil and gas lobby group, APPEA, to editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell: "… the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper's coverage of climate change policy. For the first time, the judging panel presented the award to an editor rather than a reporter or columnist.
"Climate science was seen as a form of political correctness," McKnight says. "Many people have said if you want to know what Rupert Murdoch really thinks, read the editorial and [opinion] pages of the New York Post. If you do that on climate, you find a virulent platform for climate deniers. There were quite vicious attacks on Al Gore, for example. It gave a platform to Exxon-funded climate sceptics. It supported [former president George] Bush's rejection of Kyoto several times in editorials."
Then on May 9, 2007, apparently at the urging of son James, Murdoch announced News Corp would go carbon neutral by 2010.
We might have an unexpected ally in the Murdoch's!
Do you think their environment editors might be interested in the book?