Why are newspapers accepting grants to publish certain “news”?
News & Observer receives grant to bolster coverage of climate change, the environment
The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun will add a full-time climate change and environment reporter starting June 1, thanks to a grant from the 1Earth Fund.
The 1Earth Fund is a private nonprofit foundation that finances efforts to provide education and information about climate change, its effects and solutions to the problem.
Adam Wagner has been selected by the N&O as its new climate change and environment reporter. Wagner has worked with the paper for two years as a Report For America corps member. RFA places reporters in newsrooms across the country to help bolster local news coverage. Wagner has covered hurricane recovery and, since the start of the pandemic, efforts to create and distribute a coronavirus vaccine.
“We’re grateful to the 1Earth Fund for recognizing that credible and independent news and information on critical issues can help solve intractable problems,†said Robyn Tomlin, president and editor of The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun. “We’re excited to have a talented reporter like Adam Wagner transitioning into this role.â€
They’re grateful that they’re news reporting is being bought by a far left outlet? How is it possible to even pretend to be a neutral news service? Let’s find out about Report For America
Report for America is an organization that seeks to place journalists in local newsrooms all around the country. The organization is modeled after the U.S. government agency Americorps which sends members to assist on various projects all over the country.
Report for America helps newsrooms across the country hire journalists. It also seeks to hire journalists to cover areas that are traditionally ignored by the national media.
Report for America is a joint project of Google News Lab and The GroundTruth Project, both organizations associated with the political left-of-center.
So, the N&O is going to publish propaganda, and they are actually going to have several “reporters” from RFA working on not just the climate change scam, but “one covering housing and the pandemic, and one covering diverse communities in and around the Triangle.”
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the climate scam
Top Scientist Cuts Ties With National Lab After It Invited A Climate Denier To Speak
Ben Santer, one of the world’s best-known climate scientists, announced this week he is severing ties with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory after the federal research facility invited a climate denier to give a book talk this Thursday.
Santer had planned to retire from the lab, where he has worked for 29 years, in September, but would continue his award-winning atmospheric research on a part-time basis and maintain his affiliation.
But in a blog post published Monday, the MacArthur “Genius†grant recipient said his employer failed to “adequately address†concerns he raised with hosting physicist Steve Koonin to speak about his new book, “Unsettled,†which sows doubt over the reality of human-causing global warming. Santer cast the decision to allow Koonin, a New York University professor, to promote his polemic at an official lab event as a betrayal of the research conducted there for decades.
If a scientist is unwilling to listen to other views, other scientific data, they should stop calling themselves scientists. Science requires lots of viewpoints, as science can change with new data. And, heck, Santer didn’t have to go to the book talk. But, no, he freaked and quit early. It’s a cult. And now those of us here in the Raleigh area will have a cultist writing lots of material which you know will be front page.
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