{"id":258309,"date":"2023-05-20T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258309"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T16:11:27","slug":"the-obliging-presstitutes-of-climate-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258309","title":{"rendered":"The Obliging Presstitutes of Climate\u00a0\u2018Journalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Scepticism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0TONY THOMAS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth Journalism Network and the Pursuit of Truth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, those journalists who\u2019ve specialised in climate and net-zero nuttery have a global Big Brother to train them, \u201ctackle disinformation\u201d<\/a> and supply daily titbits to print and inspire. More than 15,000 environment\/climate reporters from 180 countries are subscribed to the Earth Journalism Network, run by a staff of about 30<\/a> (a dozen full-time plus project staff). It also boasts thousands of journos accessing EJN on social media.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN is funded by dozens of foundations<\/a> \u2013 including woke billionaire entities such as the Hewletts and Packards and Rockefeller Brothers, along with official sugar-daddies like the European Commission, UN aid agencies and the US, UK and Swedish governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The network was founded in 2004 by the Internews global charity with its charter to strengthen human rights and trust in the media<\/a> \u2013 especially in the Third World. Curiously, Internews originated in San Francisco 1982 to build good relationships<\/a> between youth, the media and politicians in the US and in the Soviet Union, perhaps overlooking that everyone on the Brezhnev side would be managed by the KGB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Internews\u2019 five-year plan is to mobilise journos, techies, lawyers, artists, advocates, and \u201cstorytellers\u201d so that \u201cTogether, we will build healthy information environments<\/a> in more than 100 countries across the globe.\u201d (p9)<\/strong>. <\/strong><\/em>It runs a sister relationship with Internews Network US. Combined, the alliance claims to be \u201camong the two or three largest, if not the largest organisation,<\/a> working in the media, information and development sub-sector.\u201d (p23).[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN Executive Director is journo James Fahn<\/a>, who is also global director of the parent Internews Environmental Programs. He doubles as a journalism post-grad lecturer at University of California, Berkeley. His staff have a significant Australian input, with one assistant, Signi Livingstone-Peters<\/a>, for example, previously doing PR for Australia\u2019s left\/authoritarian<\/a> Academy of Science. Mr Fahn\u2019s own journalism could benefit from fact-checking. Only last month he co-wrote about Pakistan<\/a> (my emphasis),<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does a journalist cover events on the ground when a third of a country\u2019s land territory is flooded<\/strong>? They say that journalists write the first draft of history, and there is no bigger story in the 21st<\/sup> century than the climate crisis \u2026 Members of Internews\u2019 Earth Journalism Network<\/a> (EJN) have been proving the power of local journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is stirring stuff, but it\u2019s also undiluted hogwash for Fahn to claim Pakistan was a third under water. See below from the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s ombudsman after the national broadcaster made the same claim last October:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of your complaint, ABC Online has removed the reference \u201cputting one-third of the country underwater\u201d from the story \u2026 As you pointed out, <\/em>it is suggested that somewhere between 10%-12% of Pakistan was flooded.<\/em><\/a> We are satisfied that this amendment resolves your complaint.<\/em> \u2014 Loren Ferrel<\/em>, <\/em>ABC Ombudsman\u2019s Office.<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN is jostling with many other bad actors to woo the Third World\u2019s media. As one interviewee cited in EJN material remarked<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This may be an increasingly critical need as other foreign funders with potential ulterior motives such as placing country propaganda in the media [as distinct from climate propaganda], are starting to provide funding to media outlets in low- and middle-income countries.<\/em> (p71)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A case study in how EJN manipulates the media can be found in its briefings for South African journalists. It briefs them with a supposed fact sheet headed, A Journalist\u2019s Guide to Covering Net Zero in South Africa<\/em><\/a>\u2026 Getting better at reporting it<\/em>.\u201d This pathetic tipsheet can be contrasted with today\u2019s reality in that benighted country. Here\u2019s extracts from EJN:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African media landscape has plenty of room to improve coverage on South Africa\u2019s journey to net zero in the context of climate change risks and opportunities. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Often, journalists fail to unpack the risks of inaction on climate change (like reducing emissions) or the solutions to fix it while focusing on the economic risks of a move away from coal in the short term\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After pages of such clap-trap, EJN provides its client journos with \u201csuggested story themes\u201d. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666<\/em> What risks will South Africa face if it fails to transition to a low carbon economy by 2050? In contrast, what benefits will the country enjoy from aligning its climate commitments to its developmental agenda?<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 How is the climate change bill poised to solidify South Africa\u2019s commitment towards reaching net zero? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 How are big polluters in South Africa using the carbon market to offset their emissions elsewhere \u2013 and how effective are these measures in reducing their actual carbon footprint? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2666 Are domestic finance institutions aligning with the goals of the Paris Agreement and how can South Africa\u2019s sectoral targets and carbon budgets assist in legislating this? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what\u2019s actually happening<\/a> in South Africa today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa a decade ago became the world\u2019s guinea pig for transitioning to renewables. From independence in 1994, ANC inherited an almost wholly coal-fired electricity system but which soon became uneconomic and dependent on Western aid. Then, in 2013-17,  the World Bank halted funding of coal plants and fossil fuel extraction, forcing South Africa towards renewables. The promise-anything Ramaphosa government told the world in 2020 it was moving to net-zero by 2050. The World Bank last November helpfully loaned $US500 million to help South Africa decommission its coal plants<\/a>. But with billions spent on 50 wind and solar projects since 2010, the country\u2019s share of renewables has barely shifted, with wind now at 2 per cent, solar at 1.3 per cent, and coal still at 89 per cent. Meanwhile, GDP per capita has sunk 12-15 per cent since 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the lowest-income section of the population suffered grievously from 205 days of rolling, without-notice blackouts in blocks of four hours and without notice. This year\u2019s outages have denied grid power to most homes and businesses for up to ten hours a day<\/a>, all this while diesel for business\u2019s generators is becoming unaffordable. To May 9, South Africans have spent 27 per cent of the year without power, compared to 9.5 per cent during 2022. The ANC, now at electoral risk, is reconsidering coal investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such is the South African \u201cjust and equitable transition\u201d to renewables, \u201cleaving no one behind\u201d as EJN rhapsodises.[2]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN money really talks. When EJN offered grants to 20 Third World reporters to attend Egypt\u2019s COP27 Summit last year, it had to turn away 500 applicants<\/a>. \u201cFor each new powerful climate-related story that is produced, many others never actually get reported,\u201d EJN lamented. \u201cInvesting in local news may not seem like the most obvious solution to the climate crisis, but it is a key piece of the puzzle. Without independent information, both the dangers of and the solutions to the climate crisis may never be fully understood.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN\u2019s sophisticated influencers train environmental reporters, particularly from the Third World, and provide them with prefabricated stories. This remit includes genuine environmental stories such as illegal logging, fresh water needs and ocean pollution, but the main focus is to spread anti-fossil-fuel messaging. For example, it cites one Pakistani journo client doing a project, \u201cTransforming journalism into activism<\/a> and policy change\u201d. (p33).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It finances the journos to attend workshops and gives them and their editors money for writing, producing and distributing stories favourable to leftist narratives. Money to editors is tagged \u201cto shore up their environmental coverage.\u201d (p7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other cash handouts have bankrolled 500+ Fellowships financing journos to report at UN and NGO conferences. Currently, for example, EJN is offering 25 environment journos in the Mekong region a three-day workshop junket to Chiang Mai, Thailand<\/a> to schmooz with NGOs and a chance for 16 of them afterwards to pitch a story for a $US1500 EJN grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN boasts of \u201ctraining\u201d 15,000 journalists<\/a>thus directly generating 15,000-plus stories plus a tail of further stories from its acolytes. Close to 11,000 journos<\/a> have put up their hand for EJN money, nearly 1000 of them successfully. It doesn\u2019t cite the money total but mentions it\u2019s given out more than $US3 million in \u201csub-grants\u201d alone. It knows that stories with high-quality graphics are the most persuasive, and has helped set up ten regional platforms to help journos bolster their stories with illustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 An EJN graphic says 1.83 per cent of its 15,000 journos are Australian-registered, which suggests quite a large number in our small pool. An odd detail is that the Australian cohort breaks down into 53 per cent women, 15 per cent men and 32 per cent who \u201cconsider themselves of another gender\u201d<\/a>. Such a high representation of multi-genders among Australian environmental journos, although commendably inclusive, seems so unusual that I checked the ratio in other regions, with the following results: Germany \u2013 a whopping 53 per cent claiming \u201canother gender\u201d, with only 8 per cent \u201cmen\u201d and 40 per cent \u201cwomen\u201d; France had 50per cent \u201canother gender\u201d, 40 per cent \u201cwomen\u201d and 10 per cent \u201cmen\u201d. In the US, a much lower 11 per cent were \u201canother gender\u201d compared with 60 per cent \u201cwomen\u201d and 29 per cent \u201cmen\u201d.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the EJN payment handouts is one thing; but how successful is all this in seducing journalists to idolise renewables? EJN has helpfully posted an impact study on-line<\/a>, showing that once it bankrolls journalists, close to 80 per cent go on to improve their earnings and careers (e.g. freelance fees\/job-promotions). EJN quizzed four media outlets after handing them cash, but only one said it was financially sustainable; the other three merely said they\u2019d become a bit more sustainable. (These Third World groups tend to be precarious).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EJN money definitely helped journos pitch better climate stories to their bosses and score a higher success rate on pitches, along with prizes from like-minded green sponsors for their stories. The journos chorused that EJN money had helped them achieve their goals of persuading readers \u2013 in their words, \u201cpolicy and action related to climate change, biodiversity and the environment\u201d.[4]<\/a> Some used the money to complete expensive projects like anti-corruption investigations, which led to worthwhile reactions by governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one case study, a Filipino journo \u201cJhesset E\u201d \u2014 got a string of EJN grants and workshops for stories. Those included one that \u201csupported partnerships between non-governmental organizations and journalists to cover climate change\u201d and another \u201cabout reporting on climate change through a gender lens\u201d. This involved her interviewing women suffering after storms and floods etc which, of course, were attributed \u2013 sans evidence \u2013  to \u201cclimate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blockbuster case study involved an EJN client journo from Bangadesh identified as \u201cIllius S\u201d, who was talent-spotted at a three-day EJN workshop on \u201cclimate justice\u201d and other non-sequiturs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His passion for climate reporting took off from there \u2026 Following the workshop, Illius received several fellowships and story grants from EJN, which he credited with helping him make the transition to working as a full-time climate journalist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The enthused Illius came good with a story about climate change causing the cultural loss of babies\u2019 names in Bengal\u2019s coastal villages. According to Illius, babies used to be named after parents\u2019 income source, e.g. \u201cProbal\u201d (coral) and \u201cShukti\u201d (oyster). But climate change had poisoned the corals and oysters so the villagers\u2019 jobs ended and so did the babies\u2019 names. \u201cUsing this unique perspective, Illius has continued to be a prolific climate journalist in Bangladesh,\u201d said the EJN proudly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the EJN\u2019s and Internews\u2019 commendable impact study later by scrutineer Dr Cathy Shutt<\/a>concluded in essence that (a)<\/strong> Illius\u2019 super-story of climate baby-names was tripe, and (b)<\/strong> Illius wasn\u2019t even a coherent journo and (c)<\/strong> he seemed to be criminalising the half-starved villagers for poaching and smuggling sea critters.[5]<\/a> P142-3. Eschewing tact, Shutt found<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This report certainly has huge areas to improve further\u2026<\/em>Thus, in this report, the use of \u2018climate change\u2019 make no sense and adds no value.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The critique gobsmacked the EJN gurus, who in response blustered about climate change and ocean \u201cacidification\u201d definitely hurting poor little molluscs. The reviewers suggested EJN actually look up some science, because \u201cthere is no evidence of such cases in Bangladesh.\u201d Again, EJN blustered but the reviewers opened a new front by saying that despite Illius bewailing climate causing seafront job losses, \u201cit turns out that employment opportunities accelerated in the region for many reasons\u201d including lucrative street trading in drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a delightful conclusion, the reviewers found that the basic story of climate wiping out names of Bangladeshi babies was not just tripe but,  according to Illius, had been pushed by a lecturer at the original EJN workshop. That same lecturer, when asked, claimed he said the opposite. A literature search then suggested the baby names were religious-based not vocational.[6]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Illius had claimed to EJN that his story had galvanised local authorities and been picked up by the national Bangladeshi media. This was also fact-checked by Dr Shutt, who concluded it was doubtful. His story supposedly appeared in a national outlet called the Business Standard<\/em> ,which few had heard of and wasn\u2019t mentioned even in a list of 504 national rags. While the Business Standard<\/em>\u2019s Facebook page had 162,145 followers, Illius\u2019 story earned only six \u2018likes\u2019. EJN responded that Business Standard<\/em> was a \u201cnew\u201d outlet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world of journalism seethes with well-funded third-party institutions operating night and day to ensure journos stay on-message about alleged climate perils. EJN is just one story in a much larger saga of the way truth is sold down the river when journos are bought and paid for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tony Thomas\u2019s new book from Connor Court is <\/strong><\/em>Anthem of the Unwoke \u2013 Yep! The other lot\u2019s gone bonkers. <\/strong>For a copy ($35 including postage), email tthomas061@gmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[1]<\/a>[1] Internews Europe, a UK-based charity <\/strong>with 48 staff<\/a>, budgeted for <\/strong>pds18.3m spending<\/a> ($A34m) last year. <\/strong>It puts about 30% of its energies into EJN and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> EJN has appointed 15 South African journos among its Fellows<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> Another possibility is that the EJN data is nonsense \u2013 which doesn\u2019t inspire confidence in EJN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> \u201cThis trend is especially significant when compared to respondents from the Asia-Pacific region, 85% of whom stated that their financial opportunities have improved.\u201d P25<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> Dr Shutt: \u201cIn short, a livelihood group was empathised at the beginning of the story and vilified at the end for maintaining a livelihood which is declared illegal for more than two decades, even before the climate change discourse surfaced and popularised in public and policy domain\u2026 I found this claim very inappropriate from the ethical standard of journalism and moral bearing. This is very well recognised that people who collect oysters on the coast are extremely poor and do not have much choice. Therefore, in no professional standard, it sounds appropriate to make such vulnerable group victim of one\u2019s novel work. I think this is our moral duty to protect our informants and vulnerable people.\u201d (EJN Editor\u2019s note: There has been much internal discussion over who the reporter was referring to when using words like \u201csmuggler,\u201d and we did not have time to verify whether it was gang leaders or the poor, marginalized collectors.) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> Keeping my local angle going, the study remarked, \u201cThe Cultural Atlas (IES, 2020) also recognises this fact for Bangladesh immigrants in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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