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| Biden admin is funding foreign reporters to write climate stories, emails show |
| 2022-12-22 |
| [FoxNews] The Biden administration funded a foreign "reporting tour" last year, sponsoring several overseas journalists who cover climate change, internal State Department emails showed. In March 2021, high-ranking State Department officials discussed a proposal to sponsor foreign journalists to "have experiences that educate them on reporting on climate change," according to the emails obtained by Protect the Public's Trust (PPT) and shared with Fox News Digital. In the email exchange, officials from Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry's office and the Office of Global Change (EGC) praised the program as a "fantastic" and "great" idea. "Jean Foschetti at the FPC mentioned this to me about a week ago," a State Department official whose name was redacted wrote in an email on March 23, 2021. "Sounds like a great reporting tour idea; basically, the FPC will sponsor multiple foreign reporters to have experiences that educate them on reporting on climate change. Can EGC and SPEC take a look and clear?" "Thanks for sharing … I think this sounds like a fantastic FPC (virtual) reporting tour and I'm looking forward to the stories that will come out of this," a second redacted official responded one day later. The FPC reporting tour — titled "Combating the Climate Crisis Through U.S. Innovation" — ultimately took place during a two-week stretch in May 2021. The event was designed to "promote the Administration’s goal of prioritizing the fight against climate change through global efforts to reduce emissions," according to the State Department. "The FPC … offered this virtual program to enable journalists to remotely develop their reporting about the United States’ renewed approach to addressing the climate crisis and its innovation and research, particularly in the areas of reducing emissions and renewable energy," the State Department states on its website. While the State Department quietly announced the program in 2021, though, it failed to mention that it would be funded by U.S. taxpayer money or that the foreign reporters would be "sponsored." It is unclear which reporters and outlets were sponsored by the State Department program. The tour came as the Biden administration was moving forward with its aggressive green energy and climate push. "The American public may be shocked but, unfortunately, not surprised to learn their taxpayer funds are being used to promote climate alarmism around the world," Michael Chamberlain, director of the PPT, told Fox News Digital. "The State Department should come clean about which foreign publications, articles, and authors they are forcing American taxpayers to fund." "However, one thing Protect the Public’s Trust has learned from this FOIA request is that transparency is not one of State’s strengths," Chamberlain said. "The more that is revealed the more it becomes clear why the American public’s trust in its government continues its rapid collapse." Related: Protect the Public''s Trust: 2022-09-27 The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), huge influence on Biden administration policymaking, has deep ties to the Chinese government. Protect the Public''s Trust: 2022-01-12 White House watchdog CLEARED Dr. Fauci, the highest paid government employee, of violating the Hatch Act when he criticized Trump's handling of the COVID pandemic just four days before the election Related: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate: 2022-09-27 The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), huge influence on Biden administration policymaking, has deep ties to the Chinese government. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate: 2021-04-28 John Kerry faces calls to resign over allegations of leaking Israeli intel to Iran Special Presidential Envoy for Climate: 2021-02-02 Texas Governor Orders Agencies to Sue Biden Administration for Climate Actions That ‘Kill Jobs’ |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #3 Bugs are a thing of the past Thanx, spelchek |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-22 16:05 |
| #2 So many people should be learning to code that bugs areca, thig of the past. Knuth would remind us it does not work like that. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-22 15:56 |
| #1 With all the journalists being laid off we ought to be getting more value out of the increasingly worthless money we spend for fake climate change news. It is probably worth setting up some kind of exchange where interested parties can buy fake news of all sorts at commodity prices. We could call it something like the Associated Press or AP for short. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-22 15:17 |