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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

NY Times turns up volume on 'climate propaganda machine'

2017-03-24

[The Hill] The New York Times announced last week that it will ~~just make shit up~~ expand its coverage on climate change, just as the Trump administration plans to defund most federal climate programs and the global commitment to pay for climate policies starts to wane.

A group of journalists at the Times will now be "devoted entirely to climate issues" and work with their international news bureaus to report how "the calamities caused by climate change seem to be intensifying."

And they'd better be intensifying, youse guys, if youse know what's good for youse...

According to Hannah Fairfield, head of the new climate reporting team, the Times will "produce visual, explanatory and investigative journalism" during a time of "uncertainty regarding the Trump administration’s environmental policies."

By which they mean they're going after Trump. Even more.

This is an interesting move because it’s not as if the paper lacks coverage of climate issues; in fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a bigger climate change cheerleader than the New York Times.

Rarely a day goes by that the Gray Lady isn’t wringing her hands and clutching her pearls about the certain doom we all face because of anthropogenic global warming. Its opinion page is one sustained wail about the imminent doom we all face at the hands of President Trump and his planet-pillaging cabinet.

Posted by:Besoeker

#8 Their Sunday book section also reviews fiction, I'm told

Posted by: Frank G 2017-03-24 14:50

#7 The big trouble for the NYT is that you can easily google all their global-cooling hysteria from the 1970s. Compare and contrast.

Posted by: Tom 2017-03-24 13:20

#6 They have to go with this. This is one of the few things some of their readers still believe from them.

Posted by: DarthVader 2017-03-24 13:09

#5 If you pay for this shit, you are a Fidiot.

Posted by: newc 2017-03-24 12:38

#4 And the glaciers Himalayan reported to 'disappear by 2035' were really thought to 'remain in compact areas by 2350'.

315 years of fast=forward - just a simple slip of the typewriter.

Posted by: Bobby 2017-03-24 08:56

#3 "The science is settled, so shut up!" the New York Times explained.

Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-03-24 08:38

#2 Global Warming is a faux animistic crisis reinvented for the dual purposes of taxation and political disinformation. Who hasn't at one time or another sought answers for bad weather? Blaming an adjacent tribe, absolute genius. For a 'deep dive' of it's likely tribal origins, study the Bantu peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-03-24 08:25

#1 "Roll hard left and die," as Sarah Hoyt says. And perhaps in the short term it will persuade some true believers to actually pony up for subscriptions.

Posted by: trailing wife 2017-03-24 06:08

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