Journamalism At Its Finest
Newsflash: nuclear PR shill Patrick Moore (Co-founder of Greenpeace™!) is a “popular environmentalist” the same way David Horowitz is a “staunch Marxist” or Joe Lieberman a “partisan Democrat.”
Which is to say, not in the fucking least.
I second Alison: please, for the love of God, enough with the slavering, credulous media greenwashing re: nuclear power. Because the prospect of this and this demands serious scrutiny, not lazy stenography.
Related: The Financial Post on how nuclear PR has helped transform a once-feared technology into an ‘environmentally friendly’ energy alternative, noting that market realities may ultimately render industry re-branding efforts irrelevant; David Fenton: fighting fire with fire.
(h/t Gristmill for some of the links re: greenwashing and nuclear shilling)
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Actually, having worked in Nuclear power pretty much the entirety of my adult life, I’m kinda for it.
Whether one is for or against nuclear power (and I am ag’in it) is irrelevant; the media shouldn’t be presenting paid industry consultants like Moore as ‘unbiased’ (not to mention ‘environmentalists’). He’s a lobbyist, and should be identified as such.
Scrutiny, not stenography.
(JFTR, the CS Monitor and Financial Post articles are examples of the former.)