So the other day I wrote about why I don’t think the 10:10 campaign in general works, and why Richard Curtis’s promotional film for it was destined to be a spectacular own goal which offended people and put them off environmentalism. And today the Guardian has a piece describing what’s happened since… The charities that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘guardian’
10:10 Promo Pulled
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged 10:10, climate change, guardian, Richard Curtis on October 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Why 10:10 Doesn’t Work
Posted in environmentalism, tagged 10:10, climate change, environmentalism, guardian on October 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The 10:10 campaign championed by the likes of the Guardian has got a lot of airtime recently, and today there’s a new article promoting their new campaign video on the Guardian website. I’m not suggesting that the campaign wont have achieved anything good (after all any emissions reductions aren’t a bad thing) but the whole [...]
Climategate: More Garbage from the Guardian
Posted in climate change, media, politics, tagged climate change, climategate, fred pearce, guardian, muir russell on July 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I wrote about the Penn State University investigation into Michael Mann’s research conduct which stemmed from the Climate Research Unit email hack widely known as Climategate, and criticising media outlets such as the Guardian, which gave a huge amount of coverage to the ‘scandal’ whilst then failing to give anything like equal attention to [...]
Comparing Apples to Oranges
Posted in activism, climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged Bonn, climate change, co2 emissions, guardian, media, UN, US on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just been reading a piece by John Vidal on the Guardian Website about the new draft text prepared by the UN Secretariat at the end of their discussions in Bonn over the past couple of weeks In the piece Vidal states The new draft text is also guaranteed to infuriate the US, which has [...]
Climate Camp: Mainstream Media Yearn for Riot Porn
Posted in activism, climate change, media, tagged activism, blackheath, climate camp, climatecamp, grassroots, guardian, london, media, protest on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So it seems that after a flurry of activity for the climate swoop last week where climate activists met at six strategic locations before converging on Blackheath to set up this year’s Climate Camp the mainstream media have largely lost interest in events. On the Guardian website today we have bibi van der Zee claiming [...]
G20 Death: Eyewitness Statements and Police Distortion
Posted in activism, media, tagged bbc, death, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, media, police, propaganda on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Guardian has posted the statements of three eyewitnesses who all claim to have seen first hand the Police violently attacking Ian Tomlinson minutes before he collapsed. A riot officer came up behind him and grabbed him. It wasn’t just pushing him – he’d rushed him. He went to the floor and he did actually [...]
G20 Death: Police Story in Tatters
Posted in activism, climate change, media, media activism, tagged climate camp, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, police, protest, violence on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson The man who died during last week’s G20 protests was “assaulted” by riot police shortly before he suffered a heart attack, according to witness statements received by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Investigators are examining a series of corroborative accounts that allege Ian Tomlinson, 47, was a victim of police [...]
