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THE editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, has won the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper’s coverage of climate change policy. The award is presented each year by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association.
Congratulations to the hardworking team at the Oz.
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A good post – comment is superfluous.
Ditto.
Ditto(2)
The “newspaper’s coverage of climate change” is the primary reason I no longer read that rag.
Smoking makes you cool! (Hey! Altria! Where’s my award?)
HAAAAAHAHAHAHahahaha.
Lovely understatement work there, Phil.
Thanks for bringing this award to my attention.
I’d just implore people to watch the corporate video at
http://www.appea.com.au/
Highlights:
Begins with a sneering vox pop of resignation to the science of global warming: “what is change? hah!”
Nigel Wilson, Energy writer at The Australian:
Marnbot:
the resources sector is incredibly important to Australia at the moment. It’s a huge generator of export income. blah blah blah
Penny Wong:
>>>> cut to slide:
“opportunity: a chance for advancement or progress.”
Marnbot again:
fin
btw, watch out for guest appearances by Christopher Walken in a creepy black suit and full-brim hat and two utterly douchey ‘men on the street’: “ohh yeah if we respond to environmental change and all that jazz I guess it’d be a good thing”
You couldn’t make this shit up.
Don’t let the name throw you Jimmy. It’s not really a floor, it’s more of a steel grating that allows material to sluice through so it can be collected and exported.
Beautiful.
So good, you couldn’t make it up.
Ridiculous! [snorts in disgust.]
LOL. Now for Bolter’s Human Rights award.
…Sponsored by the Burmese government.
Irony may be alive, but it clearly doesn’t read.
what was that about knowing someone by the company they keep?
That accursed organ of evil, running-dog capitalism, The Australian Financial Review, reports today in a front page story:
Don’t expect to read about this in The Australian.
Gold. I love the lack of self-awareness inherent in the boast.
Another highlight from the appea site -
Safety Topic 3: Managing Difficult People
“In this factsheet we will look at ways of influencing those ‘difficult’ people who just don’t seem to want to see things the way we do, or just ‘don’t understand’ the fact that they need to do things a certain way…..”
They’re everywhere, these troublemakers…
Jeremy, I think expecting the new Galileo!!1111!11!!! to have any self awareness is asking a bit much. You should know by now that the Right don’t do self-awareness.
I wish I could say that’s hilarious. Instead, it is just one further indictment on public culture in this country and the parlous condition of our fourth estate.
Yes, if this is the heart of the nation, the nation’s suffering from terminal obesity, smokes 100 cigarettes a day, and eats nothing but maccas.
Thanks Mike @ 17 – glad they’ve come together on the issue. cf. this post
What Emrayfo said about the condition of our fourth estate.
Says all you need to know about the journalism-PR-industrial complex.
Does anyone know if there is prize money attached to the award?
No money, just the glory.
Put a liar in your tank.
Not only did The Australian win an award today, but so did Australia. Australia won the Fossil of the Day award at the UNFCCC negotiations in Bonn. In order to achieve this award, we won the most votes from over 450 NGOs.
We even beat Canada!
Makes you proud Peter, doesn’t it?
That’s Gold!
Rumour has it that Rupert, for Newscorp, is to be awarded the inaugural Tim Johnston Firepower Award, co-sponsored by The Federal Liberal Party, for fearless and unbiased political coverage.
Or alternatively, the inaugural Mark Scott BBBBalance Award For Fearless Impartiality In The Face of Socialist Thoughtcrime.
Tom Lehrer is said to have announced his retirement on Henry Kissinger getting the Nobel Peace Prize on the basis that “satire is dead”. It wasn’t true then, but one has to wonder now…
Made my day. We are going to need some irony offsets soon
Here’s the puzzle as far as I am concerned. At what point did The Australian turn from being a promotor of big moves to combat climate change to their present oppositional stance. They did a more or less eventual pass through posing as a believer to a sceptic over a period of time. What changed? Perhaps the award given to Chris Mitchell is an indicator of the high stakes in this game. Guy Pearce’s book High & Dry gives an expose of the machinations of the various lobbies, but doesn’t Rupert give any thought to the world of his children. I’m at the stage of thinking “a pox on all your houses”. I have no descendents so why should I care so much about the world in which anyone else’s children and grandchildren will live. No skin off my nose, except…….
For all of those doomsayers reckoning upon the death of newspapers, let this stand as evidence that quality journalism still walks amongst us. And none more proud than The Australian.
Speaking of the environment, idiotic interstate bullshit results in no further transfers of water rights to the environment:
http://www.dwe.nsw.gov.au/water_trade/trade_embargo_faq.shtml
These NSW government f**kers sure know how to ruin my Friday morning. Why does it not surprise me that this vengeful petty bullshit was signed by a minister with surname “Costa”. I was thinking that Fatty O’Barrel’s lot yet again wouldn’t be any better, but farmers are MIGHTILY pissed so I dare the Nats will inadvertently do the right thing by the environment.
I mean honestly, piss off green influenced voters and the Nationals in one fell swoop. GENIUS. They’re obviously sick of the hard work involved in being the government and want a rest on the other benches. I, for one, am now going to oblige that wish.
On Wednesday, Australia, Canada, and Japan won the Second Prize in the Fossil of the Day competition for “resisting a discussion on the scale of emission reductions in Tuesday’s contact group on scale of emission reductions.”
Meanwhile, anonymous mega-donations and cheap grog supporter Steve Fielding casts his rationalist eye over the climate science at the Opposition Organ.
Clap clap for sourcing such fine commentary, Oz team.
Cheap piss 4 kidz! Solar flares are TEH HAWT!
Fielding’s a shoo-in for next election with this hi-voltage yoof tilt.
It’s pretty clear that the Fielding First party will continue to push its pro-Fielding platform at the next election.
As for families…
Who did Fielding talk to on Obama’s staff?
I’m imagining the conversation that occurred after Fielding left the meeting.
Experimenter’s regress looms large.
“Steve did a Bachelor of Engineering degree at RMIT University which he completed in 1983. He then started work at Hewlett Packard (&) later moved into management and executive roles with NEC and Siemens”…
Someone is gonna have to appeal to his inner gyro gearloose, put the problem in mechanistic terms, get him to understand the greenhouse effect as the workings of an engine, so he’s not beguiled by fancy and fanciful graphs.
Then he can move on to the fantasy of CO2 sequestration, where we are supposed to believe (processed gaseous) CO2 molecules can be made to sustainably fit into the holes the (dense solid) C came from.
Like what, they are going to invent a way to economically turn the product tri-atom CO2 molecules, (necessarily of larger molecular radius than the subterranean mono-atom C), into a super-dense solid? The Fielding Trans-Cranial Sequestration process: C02 gas goes in one of his ears, and comes out super-dense from the other?