tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post2924301246177036912..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: Rupert's pollution: What does UK phone hacking have to do with Australia's carbon debate?byron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-70896151297376384462013-12-01T09:20:25.873+00:002013-12-01T09:20:25.873+00:00A report on the media coverage of climate change i...<a href="http://sceptical-climate.investigate.org.au/" rel="nofollow">A report on the media coverage of climate change in Australia</a>. In two parts.<br /><br />Sceptical Climate Part 1: Climate Change Policy<br />Published December 1, 2011<br />Climate change policy has dominated Australian politics in recent years. While journalists often criticise others for poor communication, they should byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-12991912605769044422013-01-02T15:55:17.936+00:002013-01-02T15:55:17.936+00:00MM: 10 Dumbest things Fox said about climate durin...MM: <a href="http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/344-208/11417-horrific-injuries-linked-to-bp-dispersant-corexit" rel="nofollow">10 Dumbest things Fox said about climate during 2012</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-32451513625250329712012-12-21T12:53:42.070+00:002012-12-21T12:53:42.070+00:00Guardian: How Murdoch tried to buy the US presiden...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/bernstein-murdoch-ailes-petreaus-presidency" rel="nofollow">How Murdoch tried to buy the US presidency</a> by offering to bankroll a candidate and offering Fox as in-house support for a candidate managed by Fox President.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-25602328942379317542012-10-13T00:02:09.028+01:002012-10-13T00:02:09.028+01:00John Cook: What happened to climate change? Fox Ne...John Cook: <a href="https://theconversation.edu.au/what-happened-to-climate-change-fox-news-and-the-us-elections-9814" rel="nofollow">What happened to climate change? Fox News and the US elections</a>. <br /><br />UoCS: <a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/news-corporation-climate-science-coverage.html" rel="nofollow">Got science? Not at byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-35509628113920774362012-10-01T09:23:51.697+01:002012-10-01T09:23:51.697+01:00UoCS study finds that between Feb-Jul 2012, Fox Ne...<a href="http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/news-corporation-climate-science-coverage.html" rel="nofollow">UoCS study</a> finds that between Feb-Jul 2012, Fox News made 40 representations of climate science and in 37 cases (93%) these were misleading.<br /><br />Furthermore, eighty-one percent of letters, op-eds, columns, and editorials in the Wallbyron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-49241831286709696352012-08-08T12:25:32.560+01:002012-08-08T12:25:32.560+01:00WSJ: A New Climate-Change Consensus. That this app...WSJ: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444320704577569231537988226.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" rel="nofollow">A New Climate-Change Consensus</a>. That this appeared at the WSJ at all is the big news.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-80842504394801213902012-08-06T22:58:41.901+01:002012-08-06T22:58:41.901+01:00Media Matters: Wall Street Journal: dismissing env...Media Matters: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/08/02/the-wall-street-journal-dismissing-environmenta/189063" rel="nofollow">Wall Street Journal: dismissing environmental threats since 1976</a>. Media matters (itself no stranger to controversy over its funding, of course) has put together a timeline of the WSJ's response to a number of major environmental threats, showing that byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-36103657971773351062012-05-08T06:11:41.519+01:002012-05-08T06:11:41.519+01:00Grist: What would it look like for media to take c...Grist: <a href="http://grist.org/climate-change/what-it-means-for-media-to-take-climate-seriously/" rel="nofollow">What would it look like for media to take climate seriously?</a> A very interesting conversation between two journalists.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-90985190357603206952011-10-07T23:10:11.071+01:002011-10-07T23:10:11.071+01:00Stephan Lewandowsky: Murdoch's pollution of Au...Stephan Lewandowsky: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/01/australia-climate-scientists" rel="nofollow">Murdoch's pollution of Australian climate media</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-543766078703777502011-09-06T15:18:15.144+01:002011-09-06T15:18:15.144+01:00Robert Manne: Zealotry is not in the public intere...Robert Manne: <a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2009/opinion/zealotry-not-in-public-interest" rel="nofollow">Zealotry is not in the public interest</a>. A reflection on <i>The Australian's</i> uncritical support of Ian Plimer.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-14592944924569771292011-09-04T14:43:20.196+01:002011-09-04T14:43:20.196+01:00SMH: The record of Murdoch's national broadshe...SMH: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-truth-is-out-there-20110902-1jq1z.html" rel="nofollow">The record of Murdoch's national broadsheet <i>The Australian</i> on climate</a>. It is not pretty. This short article is a summary of a much longer and more detailed piece. Tim Lambert has been recording <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/the_war_on_science/" rel="Byron Smithhttp://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-9419825394629222502011-07-29T18:23:56.025+01:002011-07-29T18:23:56.025+01:00Keith Olbermann on why people don't whistleblo...Keith Olbermann on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5VO7fxupGo&feature=player_embedded#at=341" rel="nofollow">why people don't whistleblow within News Corp</a>, speaking from personal experience.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-59026429785944183672011-07-24T23:25:01.221+01:002011-07-24T23:25:01.221+01:00The Conversation considers the BBC report.The Conversation <a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/australian-media-take-note-the-bbc-understands-balance-in-climate-change-coverage-2462" rel="nofollow">considers the BBC report</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-27050544599849111002011-07-22T21:19:35.301+01:002011-07-22T21:19:35.301+01:00CP: More on the BBC report and the Guardian's ...CP: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/22/275400/bbc-false-balance-climate-change/" rel="nofollow">More on the BBC report</a> and the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/20/bbc-climate-change-science-coverage" rel="nofollow">Guardian's take</a>.<br /><br />The review itself is available <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/other/byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-21969998396755360672011-07-22T15:46:20.987+01:002011-07-22T15:46:20.987+01:00Hot Topic: BBC shifts its stance on science report...Hot Topic: <a href="http://hot-topic.co.nz/bbc-about-to-bite-bullet-on-climate-bs/" rel="nofollow">BBC shifts its stance on science reporting</a>. A welcome report, that points out the difference between balance and impartiality, and that balance is built into the process of scientific discourse itself, making the words of a respectable scientific publication <i>much more like to already be byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-46661750528604390772011-07-20T23:50:32.037+01:002011-07-20T23:50:32.037+01:00Guardian: If News were a liberal organisation in a...Guardian: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jul/20/news-corp-phone-hacking" rel="nofollow">If News were a liberal organisation</a> in a Republican White House/Congress, they would already be toast.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-11160112645482211202011-07-20T21:00:49.513+01:002011-07-20T21:00:49.513+01:00BG: A thousand questions but just one issue: "...BG: <a href="http://brightgreenscotland.org/index.php/2011/07/a-thousand-questions-but-just-one-issue/" rel="nofollow">A thousand questions but just one issue</a>: "There is a single issue at the heart of the News Corp. scandal from which all others emanate, and that is the influence that the corporate world and the very, very rich have over supposedly democratic institutions and a byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-73523240794439598282011-07-19T22:07:03.599+01:002011-07-19T22:07:03.599+01:00It's fine, I was just stirring you.
However,...It's fine, I was just stirring you. <br /><br />However, if you want some serious feedback on it, I'll give you this: I don't always read comments on every post, and I suspect I'm not alone. Is it worth editing the original post to indicate if you've added a whole lot of extra content below the (RSS) fold? Probably not every time, but I can't imagine people would mind it Anthony Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277745466192451883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-88778092377051359132011-07-19T20:18:33.635+01:002011-07-19T20:18:33.635+01:00Anthony:
with reference to a snowball
Care to elab...Anthony:<br /><i>with reference to a snowball</i><br />Care to elaborate? I'm not sure I follow you. Are you suggesting that the debate has snowballed out of control or were you making some link to snowballs in a warming world?<br /><br />And on a serious note, do you find the extra links in the comments off-putting? I have a friend who keeps an alias on his blog (available to all users) byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-20913452651220329482011-07-19T15:17:17.404+01:002011-07-19T15:17:17.404+01:00Spiked Online: Why losing Rupert changes (almost) ...Spiked Online: <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10900/" rel="nofollow">Why losing Rupert changes (almost) nothing</a>.<br /><br />"Which brings us to the present day and the harebrained idea that loosening Murdoch's alleged grip will liberate and re-populate with principle the British political sphere. Whatever you think of Murdoch - I am not a fan, and I byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-51360561807638512422011-07-19T06:11:50.521+01:002011-07-19T06:11:50.521+01:00I was going to say, you answered your question in ...I was going to say, you answered your question in the second sentence, with reference to a snowball!<br /><br />And then I felt shy about commenting on this thread, without being called Byron Smith...but then I saw Richard and felt ok about it. Hope he's not a pseudonym you've invented, Byron, to cover yourself...;-)Anthony Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277745466192451883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-37353500117092508712011-07-16T20:11:31.454+01:002011-07-16T20:11:31.454+01:00NYT: The [Wall Street] Journal becomes Fox-ified. ...NYT: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/opinion/16nocera.html?ref=opinion" rel="nofollow">The [Wall Street] Journal becomes Fox-ified</a>. The decline of the WSJ under Murdoch's ownership.Byron Smithhttp://nothing-new-under-the-sun.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-66296230776230884362011-07-16T02:19:06.730+01:002011-07-16T02:19:06.730+01:00I mentioned Greece above as a possible "savio...I mentioned Greece above as a possible "saviour" for Murdoch. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/14/europe-austerity-mantra-disaster" rel="nofollow">Larry Elliott</a> suggests that it is the other way around: Murdoch may have been distracting Europe from Greece (and Italy). He's not in an optimistic mood.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-87004932699540886262011-07-16T02:07:30.825+01:002011-07-16T02:07:30.825+01:00Further to the comments above about Murdoch finall...Further to the comments above about Murdoch finally taking this seriously, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/les-hinton-news-corp" rel="nofollow">another senior News exec departs</a>.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-7950437170491797762011-07-15T23:17:46.320+01:002011-07-15T23:17:46.320+01:00(This email came with footnotes and links to sourc...(This email came with footnotes and links to sources for its various claims. I'm happy to pass them on upon request, but can't be bothered adding them to this message atm.)byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.com