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.
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Ofcom should be abolished. The state should not regulate media content. We’re all adults or in the care of adults, and we know where the “off” button is.
It may be of interest that Mrs.Justice Farbey who ruled in favour of Ofcom against Mark Steyn also refused a JR application contesting the Health Officers allowing the jabbing of children overruling the recommendation of the Joint Committee on Vaccination against this
You can’t be seriously insinuating that one of HM’s Judges may be captured or even maybe a little bit biased?
Maybe, if she has kids, they’ve been jabbed.
For more on this see Dr. Peter Hotez.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
Farbey is clearly a bent one.
British justice eh? She must be terribly proud of herself.
“is neither their role to endorse Government policy nor to prevent criticism of it”
Not in today’s Britain it isn’t.
In today’s Britain it is all out war (fortunately nor at present too violent), between the state as typified by the useless next Tuesdays at ofcom, and their true paymasters, the tax payer. It is absolutely ofom’s official role to push the parasite class line.
This horrendous situation is worsening rapidly under 2tk, so hopefully some energetic pushback will commence interfrastically.
Whatever the initial intent of OFCOM, its role now is to endorse government policy and prevent criticism of it.
It has way too much power, does not serve the public (BBC get passes on everything) and should be abolished.
The judge that found against Mark Steyn is not fit to preside and should be removed from the bench.
Ofcom should be abolished of course, and the beeb should be broken up and sold off to the highest bidder.
Ofcom sorry, f@cking spellchecker.
Only huge numbers of people refusing to pay the propaganda tax (as I do) can bring the BBC to its knees. No establishment government will dismantle the BBC. The Tories may talk about BBC bias and defunding when seeking the vote of their credulous supporters but have absolutely no intention of doing so.
They also get funding form elsewhere though, like Gates etc
In return they crawl up his arse whenever he makes public appearances instead of being critical of him which they should be.
Gates seems to have stopped making PAs probably because his PR people told him he was damaging his own image just by being himself.
The licence fee enables the BBC to run a huge number of radio and TV channels far in excess of what any single TV channel can achieve.
It has a monopoly over its funding and wastes vast amounts of the licence fee levy by doing too much broadcasting.
And then you have to factor in iPlayer and the huge burgeoning BBC worldwide websites.
It has more channels than any licence fee payer can ever listen to watch or read in a lifetime.
It needs to be reined in.
Worse still lots of people have to pay the licence fee who never watch or listen to the BBC or use its website.
It is a total waste of money.
It should have one radio channel and two TV channels and leave it to the commercial sector to fill in the blanks.
The BBC disgusts me.
I remember years ago during Director General John Birt’s pogroms of staff one of the commercial stations was advertising vacancies and included “ex BBC need not apply’.
Hilarious. That is what stations which have to make a profit thought of the BBC and its staff then.
Vote for Reform.
“The judge that found against Mark Steyn is not fit to preside and should be removed from the bench.”
Absolutely.
Which is also what I concluded re the Appeal Court ‘judges’ in the Lucy Letby case. Far too many of the judges in the British courts are corrupted.
Hux, you overlook the elephant in the room. Don’t concentrate on Lucy’s case alone.
Lucy’s case has not yet been declared a miscarriage of justice but I am sure hers will be – it stank from the outset.
The Post Office scandal is acknowledged to be a massive series of miscarriages of justice.
But no one is pointing the finger at the English Bar and Judiciary.
With hundreds of cases IMHO there is a snowball’s chance in hell the solicitors, barristers and judges involved did not know there was a problem.
Like much else in this country we have a corrupt third world banana republic judicial system fed by an English bar tainted by one too many bent barristers who go on to become judges.
Don’t ask how I know. And by ‘bent’ I include those “only a little bit dishonest” as one might “only be a little bit pregnant”.
But what I do suggest you check is what mechanisms exist to investigate and remove bent judges.
There are none.
The Office for Judicial Complaints only deals with judges’ behaviours outside court. What they do in court is untouchable. So if you are a victim of a bent judge and cannot afford to appeal you are screwed.
How many bent judges are there? Do an FOI request on statistics and you won’t get any. Officially they are all as pure as driven snow.
How many bent judges bend the rules just for fun and how many do it for favours I cannot say.
What I can say for sure is one too many a judge is as bent as a nine pound note. It might only be the one but I have come across more than just the one.
Of course like anything else I am sure there are a great many judges and barristers who try to do their job to the best of their ability even if their ability in some cases is not too good.
Mark Steyn is brilliant: our times’ H.L. Mencken.
Interesting that Mrs. Justice Farbey is married to experienced civil servant and former UK government analyst Prabhat Vaze, founder and Director of the Belmana company, which advises the government on various policies, one of which is this:
Community Vaccine Champions Evaluation Report – Belmana | Analysis for Policy
When I typed in the company name on Google, it listed various tragic explosions at Indian Pharmaceuticals companies resulting in terrible injuries and loss of life. However, I could find no link to the Belmana company, so it is a bit of a mystery why Google suggested all those links.
Let’s face it. We just have a crooked biased judicial system and government agencies which props up a crooked health/medical system.
Modern pharmaceutical drugs are a leading cause of death in the western world.
Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers
Richard Smith: Is the pharmaceutical industry like the mafia?
“Ofcom is supposed to be independent and dispassionate”. So are judges.
Ofcom just another arm of the thought police
When mainstream media endlessly use the term “climate crisis” based on NO EVIDENCE Ofcom have nothing to say. It is clearly a body designed to protect the establishment world view on everything
It’s pointless expecting any Government Agency/Quango like Ofcom to be independent, impartial and NOT to support the Establishment’s propaganda.
Ofcom supports Two-Tier broadcasting:
Anything the BBC says or broadcasts is acceptable no matter how biased, unscientific and inaccurate.
Any broadcaster, say GB News, which allows genuine debate around a subject which provides “unapproved” information …. ie the Covid Tyranny, the Net Zero lunacy and trans-issues to name just three, is unacceptable.
The problem is, GB News got rid of Steyn themselves and has not been the same since.
In the latest analysis of All-Cause Mortality (ACM) data, denisrancourt.ca and his colleagues analysed ACM data from 125 countries, leading to the following conclusions:
– The spatiotemporal variations in national excess all-cause mortality rates allow us to conclude that the Covid-period (2020-2023) excess all-cause mortality in the world is incompatible with a pandemic viral respiratory disease as a primary cause of death. In other words, there was no viral disease which we call COVID-19. This is clearly shown by the Near-synchronicity of onset, across several continents, of surges in excess mortality occurring immediately when a pandemic is declared by the WHO (11 March 2020), and never prior to pandemic announcement in any country.
– Medical interventions (other than COVID-19 vaccination, including denial of treatment) were a primary cause of death significantly contributing to the measured excess all-cause mortality.
– There is No evidence of the large vaccine rollouts ever being associated with reductions in excess all-cause mortality, in any country. On the contrary, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout campaigns are significantly associated with excess all-cause mortality.
The paper concludes that the three primary causes of death associated with the excess all-cause mortality during (and after) the Covid period are:
1) Biological (including psychological) stress from mandates such as lockdowns and associated socio-economic structural changes;
2) Non-COVID-19-vaccine medical interventions such as mechanical ventilators and drugs (including denial of treatment with antibiotics);
3) COVID-19 vaccine injection rollouts, including repeated rollouts on the same populations.
Furthermore, the authors use the ACM and (WHO-provided) vaccination data from the 125 countries to calculate corresponding global values as follows:
– Excess deaths over the 3-year period 2020-2022 from all causes of excess mortality were 30.9 ± 0.2 million,
– Of which 16.9 million were COVID-19-vaccine-associated deaths.
We probably shouldn’t be surprised. The judge was not able to break out of the groupthink that has paralysed all rational thinking in the blob. This despite Naomi Wolf being able to present thousands of pages of evidence about the American vaccines, to support the claims she made on GB News…in addition to Pro Norman Fenton’s analysis.
IMHO it can be put a little more directly than you are prepared to.
See prior comment.
A corrupt judicial system.
Very good work by Professor Norman Fenton. With the tenacious dedication and determination exhibited here, these foul and dangerous organisations like Ofcom will be brought to justice. They are the enemy of the truth and integrity and utterly fail in their responsibilities.
Sadly not so.
History does not favour that POV.
In my last year at Secondary School in the 70s, members of the sixth form had a debate on how to change and/or run a country using your ideas and your ideas alone.
I spoke and said in my opinion there are two ways.
1) Civil unrest and disorder culminating in a Civil War, and
2) A less violent option but equally or perhaps even better long term is to control Education, the Media and Advertising. I said I believed the left, i.e. socialist’s and communists would implement this in the coming years. Here we are 50 years later and they without doubt control all three. Their brainwashing in Education starts with the very young and just does not let up. Their control of the Media likewise is relentless and lies to and fools the majority in this country as does the one sided and incorrect portrayal of life in Advertising.
GB News started off as a breath of fresh air with the likes of Mark Steyn, Neil Oliver and Nana Akua and many others who told the truth and highlighted the BS in the three groups mentioned above. Certain elements that were being highlighted as the devious lieers they were got rid of Mark Steyn and Calvin Robinson and moved GB News further and further to the left. It is now riddled with leftwing, woke idiots. Apart from Neil and Nana it is switched off.
I wish Mark all the very best for the future and one day would like to meet him and the guests he had on his show.