Will Advance Media owned NJ.com be offering all sides of the debate, or just one side?
Why we’re joining hundreds of news outlets to cover climate change
On September 23, world leaders will gather at the United Nations in New York to decide how global society will deal with one of the most far-reaching problems we face today: Climate Change.
That meeting is the United Nations Climate Action Summit, and it is set to be a landmark event in which the nations of the world will submit their plans to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
NJ Advance Media, the journalistic engine behind NJ.com and The Star-Ledger, is joining more than 170 other media outlets across the globe for an initiative called Covering Climate Now.
The goal of the project — which is led by The Guardian, The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review — is to have a week’s worth of climate coverage leading up to the international summit. Stories will run online, in newspapers, on television and on radio.
Our goal at NJ Advance Media is to illustrate how climate change is already impacting the lives of New Jerseyans, and what those impacts will look like in the future.
I’m guessing the answer to my question is “no way in hell.” The UK Guardian long ago gave up any pretense of journalism, and is purely an activist media outlet, as much so as Media Matters, the now dead Think Progress, and the HuffPost. Heck, the NY Times opinion section offers more opposing voices than the UK Guardian.
Taking a look around, it doesn’t seem like other Advance Media properties are engaged in this. At least yet. Though, Conde Nast, The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Wired have long been in the Cult of Climastrology (and are involved in this project). CBS news is also involved, as is the uber far left Democracy Now
We are committed to covering climate change in New Jersey, and we are proud to join such an expansive initiative to spotlight the expansive and pervasive issue.
But, they won’t be committed to providing actual news, just climate cultist propaganda, while refusing to give up their own use of fossil fuels and making the companies involved in NJ.com carbon neutral.
Oh, and you know this is insane when the refer to Bill McKibben as an “independent journalist.”
