Earth Day

Happy to oblige.

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Sounds somewhat similiar to the Western media war coverage with all the propaganda used in the fog of war.

EARTH DAY: Activists Block Newspapers Over Climate Coverage

The more we threaten the fossil fuel status quo, the less the media covers it,” says one U.S. climate scientist.

Extinction Rebellion activists form a blockade at the entrance of a newspaper printing facility in New York City on Friday. (Extinction Rebellion NYC)

By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams

A group of climate campaigners on Friday blockaded the entrance of a printing plant in New York City in an effort to hamper the distribution of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other corporate-owned newspapers to protest their failure to cover the planetary emergency with “the frequency it deserves.”

The activists, operating under the banner of Extinction Rebellion, stressed in a statement that the blockade was targeted not at individual journalists, but “at the board of directors and senior management at these institutions that determine what to include and exclude in each publication.”

“Extinction Rebellion stands behind the right to free speech and a free press, and views the breaking of certain concrete mundane laws as a public plea for societal change,” the statement reads. “The climate and ecological crisis is already here — destroying people’s homes and livelihoods with extreme weather, droughts, and fire — yet governments and corporations, influenced by mass media corporations, are complacent by continuing to ignore the root causes of the crisis and the dire situation humanity is facing.”

The demonstration singled out News Corp, The New York Times Company, and Gannett — which respectively own the Journal, the Times and USA Today — for “enabling the government’s gaslighting of the public” by burying critical climate stories below the fold or in later pages. The outlets have also come under fire for plastering fossil fuel company ads alongside their coverage and actively perpetuating climate disinformation.

Such failures, the campaigners argued, make it “easy for government to act like the climate and ecological crisis is years away, ignore scientists’ urgent calls to action, and refuse to take the steps we need to start transforming our systems from finite and fragile to strong and resilient.”

“They must be clear about the extreme cascading risks humanity now faces, the injustice this represents, its historic roots, and the urgent need for rapid political, social, and economic change,” the activists continued. “This includes more front-page coverage of the climate emergency.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/22/activists-block-newspapers-over-cl...

We need to grow these Friday demos all over!

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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greta-thunberg-earth-d...