Yes, and it’s worse than that. As @amywestervelt reports in the Drilled podcast, the fossil fuel industries’ PR invention of the “advertisement op ed” in esteemed outlets like the NYT, changed public opinion AND— as they gleefully bragged — how JOURNALISTS COVER CLIMATE. @jswatzhttps://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1187402451344904192 …
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Amy's podcast is great, but should we be surprised that people who do PR for a living tried to spin their own bosses with claims that they had changed the work of journalists at The NYT and WaPo with ads? Would the NYT have run this on A1, if true? https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html …pic.twitter.com/42YWoXU1fa
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Or, if the Times was afraid of angering big advertisers how about this one, which talks directly about Exxon funding climate denial? https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/26/us/industrial-group-plans-to-battle-climate-treaty.html …pic.twitter.com/ihuzySuaa2
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