In the past six days, the @wsj.com has run 7 climate denial opinions- and they're not just stupid and wrong, they're objectively bad! These two subheds are basically the same! Must be nice to be able to just madlib your work every day so long as it attacks Dems and licks Big Business boots - ThreadSky

phenominal.bsky.social • 40 days ago

In the past six days, the @wsj.com has run 7 climate denial opinions- and they're not just stupid and wrong, they're objectively bad! These two subheds are basically the same!

Must be nice to be able to just madlib your work every day so long as it attacks Dems and licks Big Business boots

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phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

"How dare people address underlying causes of climate change and not simply allow the fossil fuel industry to continue burning down the planet for profit!"

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

A general rule of thumb is that a paper's not going to publish your op-ed if they ran one from you within the last 6 months or so.

But the @wsj.com is so committed to climate disinfo that they ran an op-ed by bjorn lomborg on Dec 2, then another on Jan 1!

asiegel.bsky.social•40 days ago

There could be an 20 person institute dedicated to fact-checking Lomborg and they still wouldn’t be able to keep up.

https://getenergysmartnow.com/2010/04/21/energy-bookshelf-the-lomborg-deception-leads-to-a-question-does-the-washington-post-have-any-honor-left/

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

Lookit you being a decade+ ahead of the curve on the WaPo criticism! 😅

asiegel.bsky.social•40 days ago

Jeez, feel like I could have a bumper sticker "Debunking Misleading Post Material Since the 1980s" (or so -- can't remember first published LTE addressing erroneous material).

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

Unfortunately, fact checks only help people who want to be accurate

asiegel.bsky.social•40 days ago

Well aware of "fact checking" weaknesses, need for smarter myth busting, and power of storytelling even as regretting that "fact checks" don't put a check on the power/influence of those reliant on/leveraging truthiness, deceit & lying.

asiegel.bsky.social•40 days ago

1. Devotee of the Debunking Handbook. https://getenergysmartnow.com/2011/11/29/debunk-me-lean-mean-and-easy-to-read/
2. Going back to Post, the defunct Outlook section had a 'myth-busting' column that violated every basic tenet of [1] -- bold-subheading myth, repeating myth, etc.

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

oh i know you are! lol sorry meant that as commiseration not snark

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

They could have anyone! But instead they're stuck with the same handful of useful idiots peddling the most tired anti-environmental+climate disinfo cliches, because that's what Murdoch Media is for.

phenominal.bsky.social•40 days ago

wonder if the @wsj.com's access to "exclusive" handouts from the Trump administration about it's fossil fuel promotion has anything to do with the opinion section's devotion to publishing fossil fuel propaganda... No, surely MAGA respects the reporting/opinion firewall!

https://bsky.app/profile/wsj.com/post/3lfpoc4e7nd22

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