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July 11, 2016
Media coverage put a Republican face to the water crisis in Flint. The broader story on lead contamination revealed that Democratic mayors vastly outnumbered Republicans in cities with lead testing problems.
The Flint crisis gained national…
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April 25, 2019
There’s often a clear anti-capitalist bent to environmental alarm, as Guardian columnist George Monbiot proved again April 25.
“Our choice comes down to this. Do we stop life to allow capitalism to continue, or stop capitalism to allow…
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May 17, 2019
Just when it seemed The Guardian couldn’t become even more biased on climate issues than it already was, it announced updates to its “style guide” to even more extreme language on the subject.
The British paper announced on May 17…
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May 28, 2019
Not content solely to use the offensive “climate denier” term against dissenting views on climate change, a Guardian writer adopted the term “extinction deniers” in a tirade against skeptics on May 23.
Contributing writer…
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June 27, 2019
Left-wing Guardian columnist George Monbiot is often unhinged on climate issues. Now he’s blasted Royal Dutch Shell for extracting oil and gas that “will destroy our lives” and calling it a “planetary death machine.”…
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July 26, 2019
Even those who work at Google have noticed the search engine’s unfair tilt towards liberal news outlets.
Google engineer Greg Coppola, who was suspended by his company for speaking to Project Veritas, published a July 25 post on Medium…
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August 27, 2019
A study from Cornell University claims YouTube channels that feature prominent conservative figures are “infecting” users with alt-right beliefs.
“Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube,” written by five academics, concluded that “channels in…
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September 5, 2019
As the Bahamas reels from the death and destruction Hurricane Dorian caused, the news media continue to exaggerate a connection between hurricanes to climate change.
Claims ranged from global warming making it “bigger, wetter — and more…
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September 17, 2019
News consumers everywhere should prepare for the onslaught of climate change stories ahead of the UN climate summit next week.
Instigated by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation, more than 250 media entities joined forces to foster urgency and…
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September 18, 2019
While beefing about Major League Soccer (MLS) banning the anti-fascist Iron Front banner at its games, retired NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes in a UK Guardian rant that curtailing the free speech of athletes or fans is not consistent with our…