Emily Sanders on How Not to Interview an Oil CEO, Kaufman & Bozuwa on Fighting Climate Disrupters
There is no way to fight climate disruption without fighting climate disrupters.
‘The Oil Companies Are the Reason We Don’t Have Climate Policy’
“The only way we’re going to have the kind of meaningful climate policy change…is if we actually beat the oil guys.”
Richard Wiles on Fossil Fuel Lies, Rebecca Vallas on Disability Economics
The predictable harms of fossil fuels are forever “raising questions” for elite media. What would happen if they were seen as answering them?
Nightly News Fails to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis
A FAIR study of nightly news shows found a dearth of segments connecting record gas prices to any climate or alternative energy conversation.
‘In the Middle East, We Are Hearing a New Set of Excuses to Justify the Same Old Policy’
“His visit will not help peace. It will not help human rights. It will not help US interests in the region.”
‘She Intended Not to Ignore Things Related to Climate, as There Is Pressure to Do’
“Oil and gas has, for a long time, pressured financial regulators, pressured bank regulators, to adopt essentially biased rules.”
‘Every Turn in This Case Has Been Another Brick Wall, and Behind It Is Chevron’
“It’s the playbook for these corporations to fight back against activists, journalists, lawyers, human rights organizations.”
Paul Paz y Miño on Chevron v. Steven Donziger
Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect.
ACTION ALERT: NYT Ignores Two-Year House Arrest of Lawyer Who Took on Big Oil
The New York Times has not covered Chevron’s bizarre conflict with human rights attorney Steven Donziger since 2014.
‘The Candidates Who Are Opposed to Fracking Are Winning’
“In addition to all of the environmental problems, and the public health issues, the climate issues that we just mentioned, the business model that fracking is built upon is essentially almost a Ponzi scheme.”
Mitch Jones on Fracking’s Hazards, Matt Sutton on Drug War’s Victims
Corporate media prioritize the supposed “risks” to the electoral prospects of Democrats who call for banning fracking over the prospects for human civilization’s survival.
Press Worries About a Fracking Ban’s ‘Risk’ to Democrats—Not Fracking’s Threat to Planet
Whenever there are discussions about enacting a national fracking ban, corporate media seem to prioritize the supposed short-term potential “risks” to Democrats’ electoral prospects, or potential economic downturns, over the long-term prospects for human civilization’s survival.
‘Investment in Fossil Fuels Yields Much Less Returns Than the Green Sector’
Janine Jackson interviewed journalist Antonia Juhasz about the end of oil for the September 18, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. [mp3-jplayer tracks=”CounterSpin Antonia Juhasz Interview @http://www.fair.org/audio/counterspin/CounterSpin200918Juhasz.mp3″] MP3 Link Janine Jackson: Dow Jones dropped ExxonMobil from its blue chip stock market index, a spot it had occupied since 1928. Major banks […]
Antonia Juhasz on the End of Oil
While we welcome the demise of an oil industry that does such harm, we have to remember that a creature can do tremendous damage in its death throes, and that a better way forward isn’t guaranteed, unless we fight for it.
Manufacturing Disgrace: Reuters Distorts Chevron v. Donziger
Independent journalist Chris Hedges (ScheerPost, 8/25/20) wrote: The flagrant corruption and misuse of the legal system to abjectly serve corporate interests in the Donziger case illustrates the deep decay within our judiciary and democratic institutions. One of those deeply decayed institutions is the corporate media, as a review of several years of Reuters coverage […]
‘Drilling Would Have Devastating Impacts on This Fragile Ecosystem’
“We need to be protecting large swaths of land like the Arctic Refuge, and using them for the future preservation and mitigation of climate change.”
Karlin Itchoak on Wildlife Refuge Drilling, Steven Rosenfeld on How to Vote
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is being reported as a Trumpian bad idea. Is that enough?
Missing Perspective in Media: Iran/Venezuela Ties Are None of US’s Business
Corporate media coverage of Iranian oil shipments to Venezuela has framed the deliveries as a problem that needs to be solved, rather than a commercial transaction that doesn’t concern third parties.
‘Governments and Corporations Were Figuring Out a Way to Behave With Impunity When It Comes to Oil’
“It’s an actual strategy among oil companies…that if you can fearmonger enough, you can get a public that says, ‘Fine, even though the safety measures are not in place, we’ll drill 10 miles in the ocean if you don’t go to foreign oil.’”
‘Now We Know Oil Is More Toxic Than We Thought’
“I was shocked to see how easily these big oil companies, in this case Exxon, could make its story the dominant story.”
