In a new post on LinkedIn, Walmart's Chief Sustainability Officer, Kathleen McLaughlin, underscored the company's commitment to addressing climate change. But McLaughlin noted, correctly, that "even the most ambitious voluntary individual and collective actions are not sufficient" and "[b]old domestic climate policy action is needed now if we are to meet the demands of this generational moment."
Or what, Joe? A free press is already in peril. It certainly doesn't need direct threats from someone who purports to be a man of the people. What an embarrassment.
Your investigative reporting is important information that is completely ignored by MSM because, IMO (and backed by facts) all our so-called “national news” is still owned by conservatives and is not the “liberal press” they want all of us to believe it is.
Until we pass laws against disseminating misleading, shady, and outright false information, this accurate information will be assigned to the “back room” of reporting.
How about a new and updated version of the Fairness Doctrine that covers all media including the relentless propaganda available on the web?
We have to do something BEFORE we lose whatever control we have against this planned gaslighting of, not just the people in this country, but people all around the planet.
Well. Laws may not work. Laws against misinformation would make politics disappear as it is all based on double talk and split tongued reasoning. I agree, "there oughta' be a law. . ."
Yes. Broader information AND accurate information. Gaslighting and completely false information should be made a class three felony with some guaranteed serious jail time (for the CEOs & the reporters) as a deterrent.
But of course we’d have to convince enough people to protest these lies with fervent insistence, which is a main issue we have to get past to combat the corruption in MSM.
We do have a certain amount of accurate information being disseminated by CNN and MSNBC but it’s not nearly enough.
Oy please not “jail time” - massive fines, take $$ out of shareholder pockets as well as those of CEOs. Even so I’m not sure criminal policy is the place to look - it’s up to We the people to become educated and activated and demand something better than 24/7 infotainment.
It's mind-boggling, Judd! How did 'We' come to accept such?? I know this isn't new - humans have been deceiving each other and manipulating narratives since the beginning of time. But isn't the minimization of that tendency at the root of why democracy came to be? Aren't We 'here' because We determined that, despite great individual differences, the collective can pull together to wrest power from those whose only intent is more power? As JB below points out: "we’d have to convince enough people to protest these lies with fervent insistence, which is a main issue we have to get past to combat the corruption". We cannot simply gloat and glow that we have found a community in which to air our dissatisfactions. I can only hope that each individual who reads your work gets fired up enough to take at least one concrete action, but I suspect that alone isn't enough. If you have any ideas, Judd, toward harnessing the energy you let loose, I would bet you'd have quite a legion of backers. Count me in!
I don't know why we consider a blind trust satisfactory under these conditions. Just because Manchin, or others like him, don't know the exact details of their investments doesn't mean they don't know where their profits come from. He knows he's invested in a coal company, so he knows that tanking climate legislation will be good for his pockets.
Playing both sides of the field allows them to win. You can bet they are on the side though, that rolls in the cash to the 1% corporation. The blow a little smoke across the field to make it look like they care.
Oh hypocrites all of them. And the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. And they believe that nobody sees this contrary habitual misleading of the public. They all know that the general populace wants Climate action. This would hurt their bottom line, so they say all the right words and do as they wish.
Thanks for bringing this to light. It must be dark work to do this investigating and bringing truth to light. Keep up the courage to go forward, Judd. We need voices like yours!
Answering my own question above, FB is an international platform - probably one of the cheaper, easier ways for US based polluters/bad actors to do both international and domestic PR messaging. And it seems slippery as an eel here in the US - where we so far treat it as a harmless entertainment rather than a public citizen with the same responsibility as other publishers. (In this regard it seems some members of the EU are ahead of the US.)
Still, I’m highly uncomfortable with the suggestion (made above) of jailing American “reporters” for passing on/creating bad information. - Democracy really does depend on its Fourth Estate (journalism) and I strongly support our First Amendment, though can see the need for it to give way when so called “reporters” slop over into “content creators” and/or flak (PR people), in the pockets of/themselves profiteers at the expense of/with reckless disregard for the best interests of our planet and of its poor, young, old and disabled. Quite possibly this is a problem best handled by an international court, but oops we don’t believe in international criminal courts do we?
"You'd do best to change the subject."
Or what, Joe? A free press is already in peril. It certainly doesn't need direct threats from someone who purports to be a man of the people. What an embarrassment.
Your investigative reporting is important information that is completely ignored by MSM because, IMO (and backed by facts) all our so-called “national news” is still owned by conservatives and is not the “liberal press” they want all of us to believe it is.
Until we pass laws against disseminating misleading, shady, and outright false information, this accurate information will be assigned to the “back room” of reporting.
How about a new and updated version of the Fairness Doctrine that covers all media including the relentless propaganda available on the web?
We have to do something BEFORE we lose whatever control we have against this planned gaslighting of, not just the people in this country, but people all around the planet.
Well. Laws may not work. Laws against misinformation would make politics disappear as it is all based on double talk and split tongued reasoning. I agree, "there oughta' be a law. . ."
Thank you for your work, Judd.
Do you have any ideas on how what an effective strategy would be for holding these grifters accountable?
So far they haven't been.
It seems we need stronger, broader, more focused messaging, some how.
Yes. Broader information AND accurate information. Gaslighting and completely false information should be made a class three felony with some guaranteed serious jail time (for the CEOs & the reporters) as a deterrent.
But of course we’d have to convince enough people to protest these lies with fervent insistence, which is a main issue we have to get past to combat the corruption in MSM.
We do have a certain amount of accurate information being disseminated by CNN and MSNBC but it’s not nearly enough.
Oy please not “jail time” - massive fines, take $$ out of shareholder pockets as well as those of CEOs. Even so I’m not sure criminal policy is the place to look - it’s up to We the people to become educated and activated and demand something better than 24/7 infotainment.
You have a valid point there--except for the fact that the propaganda [they spew] converts new idiots that believe this crap every day.
So, maybe not jail/prison but certainly make it hurt their finances to continue to spread these lies and untruths.
I also agree that we have too many (mostly the wrong people) in prisons but the fines would have to be large enough to make them effective.
Again, jaw dropping reporting from you, Judd. Thank you.
It's mind-boggling, Judd! How did 'We' come to accept such?? I know this isn't new - humans have been deceiving each other and manipulating narratives since the beginning of time. But isn't the minimization of that tendency at the root of why democracy came to be? Aren't We 'here' because We determined that, despite great individual differences, the collective can pull together to wrest power from those whose only intent is more power? As JB below points out: "we’d have to convince enough people to protest these lies with fervent insistence, which is a main issue we have to get past to combat the corruption". We cannot simply gloat and glow that we have found a community in which to air our dissatisfactions. I can only hope that each individual who reads your work gets fired up enough to take at least one concrete action, but I suspect that alone isn't enough. If you have any ideas, Judd, toward harnessing the energy you let loose, I would bet you'd have quite a legion of backers. Count me in!
I don't know why we consider a blind trust satisfactory under these conditions. Just because Manchin, or others like him, don't know the exact details of their investments doesn't mean they don't know where their profits come from. He knows he's invested in a coal company, so he knows that tanking climate legislation will be good for his pockets.
Playing both sides of the field allows them to win. You can bet they are on the side though, that rolls in the cash to the 1% corporation. The blow a little smoke across the field to make it look like they care.
They don't. It's all about profit and control.
Oh hypocrites all of them. And the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. And they believe that nobody sees this contrary habitual misleading of the public. They all know that the general populace wants Climate action. This would hurt their bottom line, so they say all the right words and do as they wish.
Thanks for bringing this to light. It must be dark work to do this investigating and bringing truth to light. Keep up the courage to go forward, Judd. We need voices like yours!
Fascinating that pols/lobbyists are using FB as advertising platform for anti-climate, corporate irresponsibility messaging. Why is that?
Answering my own question above, FB is an international platform - probably one of the cheaper, easier ways for US based polluters/bad actors to do both international and domestic PR messaging. And it seems slippery as an eel here in the US - where we so far treat it as a harmless entertainment rather than a public citizen with the same responsibility as other publishers. (In this regard it seems some members of the EU are ahead of the US.)
Still, I’m highly uncomfortable with the suggestion (made above) of jailing American “reporters” for passing on/creating bad information. - Democracy really does depend on its Fourth Estate (journalism) and I strongly support our First Amendment, though can see the need for it to give way when so called “reporters” slop over into “content creators” and/or flak (PR people), in the pockets of/themselves profiteers at the expense of/with reckless disregard for the best interests of our planet and of its poor, young, old and disabled. Quite possibly this is a problem best handled by an international court, but oops we don’t believe in international criminal courts do we?