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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 20, 2011 18:39:31 GMT 1
From Messenger at Bishop Hill
This part of Joe Smith's CV is particularly interesting:
Media, environment and development (1996 - ongoing)
For over a decade (1996 - present) I have designed and facilitated strategic level seminars aimed at improving coverage of complex environment and development issues, working with the BBC and other partners. This work has been shaped by insights from contemporary social science, and is integral to a programme of action research resulting in academic and policy publications.In the tradition of action research my findings are feeding directly back into decision-making within media and related organisations. The seminars have been publicly credited with catalysing fresh thinking in BBC outputs across platforms and with leading directly to specific and major innovations in programming, including Africa Lives on the BBC 2005 and the Climate Chaos season 2006, as well as other environment and development related seasons and projects.
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 20, 2011 19:01:14 GMT 1
Stop Press:
Jeremy Clarkson in running to be BBC science editor. In a statement the no-holds-barred motormouth said:
"Since the BBC has stipulated that its new science editor need not have any scientific qualifications I have allowed myself to be put forward for the post. On Top Gear, and in my many other programs, I have shown myself to be an outstanding storyteller and journalist. My views about climate change are well known. I grilled Alistair Campbell about them. When was the last time you saw a journalist working for BBC News do that, to anyone.
I see myself as the flip side to Roger Harrabin, and in the interests of impartiality I insist the BBC hires me to restore the "balance" it so often preaches about.
I won't need a company car.
I will submit a portfolio of stories that BBC should be doing in the Science/Environment front, along with my application. As the Science editor role is also an advisory one I recommend;
No more Mike Hume, Myles Allen or Bob Ward. No more Shukman on an ice sheet - it's so British Leyland. Richard Black to take a course on statistics at Stow on the Wold Junior school (where my kids will teach him a thing or two.) Briwan Cox to be plunged into a black hole. David Attenborough out to pasture.
There...I bet none of the other candidates have got anything as detailed and as impressive as that.
If they don't interview me for the job I will be claiming my £15,000 from the University of East Anglia. Thinking about it I will want £15,000 from all environmentally interested parties. This is essential because, in Harrabin's own words, it will ensure that when I come to report on them I am even more impartial than I would have been.
Another thing I will promise if I get the job. Al Gore will be my star "in a reasonably priced car."
I will also chain myself to a windmill.
I will of course contribute and offer my expertise to other areas of BBC News' output. For example I have a lot to say about the suggestion to ban smoking in cars.
Given my qualifications (especially my lack of science qualifications) I firmly expect to be granted an interview, if not fast-tracked into the post, without the need for an interview.
I am also a better broadcaster than Robert Pesto because people can (long pause) understand what I'm saying.
I am the one to put BBC news's environment and science coverage back on track. This will also save the corporation.
How hard can it be?"
In conclusion Jeremy Clarkson said
What other candidate for the role of BBC Science Editor has driven a car (and a Toyota at that) to the North Geomagnetic pole, or travelled at twice the speed of sound in mig fighter. I have personally contributed more CO2 into the atmosphere than the rest of the BBC Science and Environmental team put together driving around in their Prius's (which incidentally is my favourite car!)
What's more I bring a youthful, zesty, sexy image to BBC environmental reporting. I don't wear a wig like Shukman, am 5 years younger than Harrabin, and, unlike Richard Black, I know that 1 + 1 = 2.
I also don't read the Guardian.
I would also, in the interests of impartiality, dump the Science Media Centre, (when Fiona Fox calls me I am never sure if she's pretending to be someone else for a disgraced, fat, Scottish MP) and replace them with the GWPF.
I would also recommend setting up a BBC Outside Broadcast on the Maldives, and a free copy of the Times Atlas of the World for all BBC Staff.
The BBC has been rabidly pro this Global warming nonsense for a decade now, therefore, in the interests of impartiality and balance I am the ideal candidate.
My referees will be:
Lord Sugar, HRH Prince Phillip, Lord Lawson. Kristen Scott Thomas.
Courtesy of Jeremy Clarkson's Press Spokesman at Bishop Hill.
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Post by nickrr on Nov 20, 2011 20:54:48 GMT 1
He's quite good when mucking around with cars but outside his area of expertise he really is a bit of a prat.
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 21, 2011 0:33:25 GMT 1
bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/11/20/who-is-joe-smith.htmlJustice4Rinka on Bishop Hill comments 'At 3 minutes in he lists the "achievement" of the environmental movement as having been "to increase fear, concern, and anxiety" and having managed to "knock at the door of everyone motivated by these kind of emotions". Science not so much. Is he for real? Surely this is some kind of spoof?' Andrew Montford adds "My guess is that Open University pays his salary and then he uses his time on green activism. My sense is that this is a relatively widespread problem in academia." Mac concludes "What connects BBC journalists and academics is climate activism." Richard Tol gives an insider's view "Dr Smith has probably about 3.5 days per week (on average over the year) to spend on his own research agenda -- that is, do what he f***ing well likes. He is an "action researcher" so he argues that his activism is part of his research. He is in the social sciences, so his department head may well accept this argument. That said, he is in his late 30s. He's only a senior lecturer. Should have been a reader by now. So he's not that well-regarded by his peers." Foxgoose remarks "Hmm....... sounds a bit as we might be dealing with the Tracey Emin of the academic world. 'It's science 'cos I say it is'."
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 21, 2011 9:56:09 GMT 1
More on The Propaganda Machine from Bishop Hill bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2011/11/21/the-propaganda-machine.htmlReaders may remember that TVE, the organisation that had been involved in illicitly sponsored BBC shows, has apparently taken its website down. Commenters at Biased BBC biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/11/curiouser-and-curiouser.html noted that this appears to have happened on 24 October 2011. There's a footnote in the BBC Trust report on the scandal www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/appeals/esc_bulletins/2011/world_news.pdf about another of the organisations involved: FBC Media. It has been reported that on 24 October 2011, FBC Media (UK) Ltd went into administration. The same date. Are FBC and TVE related in some way? FBC Media appears to have journalist Alan Friedman as the sole director. The company was certainly in financial trouble companycheck.co.uk/company/05302864, and it looks as if creditors are going to take a bath on FBC. TVE, meanwhile, is a charity, owned and run by a parent charity called the Television Trust for the Environment (TVTE). TVE appears to produce the programmes and TVTE raises the funds. The parent appears to be in dire financial straits. There is no obvious connection to FBC though, so it may be that the BBC Trust's decision has simply pushed them over the edge at the same time as FBC. But this is not the end of the story. Look at who's funding TVTE. www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends39%5C0000326539_ac_20101231_e_c.pdf Of their £1090k income, more than half is from the EU, with the rest mostly from the usual suspects - UNEP, Oxfam, FAO, UNFPA, UN etc etc. Now look at the accounts of TVE, the production company subsidiary www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends85%5C0000326585_ac_20101231_e_c.pdf. Of their total income of £1423k, only £48k (~3%) was from sales of TV programmes. The rest was donations, mostly from the parent charity, TVTE. In other words, the content was being given away to TV stations in order to promote the interests of the international bureaucracies of the EU and UN. There are hints in the BBC Trust report, referring to programmes being purchased at nominal cost. But one doesn't quite get the right impression. And, as we saw yesterday, this may have been going on for fifteen years.
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 21, 2011 17:15:01 GMT 1
Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Guardian Journalistnofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/11/20/pachauri-interviewed-by-pretend-journalist/November 20, 2011 at 8:23 am Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is currently on a media tour attempting to drum up interest in the climate change conference that will soon get underway in Durban, South Africa. A few days ago the website of the UK’s Guardian newspaper republished a fawning article about Pachauri www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/18/ipcc-chief-denial-extreme-weather?newsfeed=true that was originally written for a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) publication. The NRDC is a US-based green lobby group that fancies itself “the Earth’s best defense” and boasts about the “350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals” on its staff. Its in-house magazine is called called OnEarth. When you subscribe to it you instantly become a member/supporter of the NRDC. Yes, you heard that right. Mainstream newspapers now shamelessly republish environmentalist propaganda and pretend its news. ---------- Pretend "news" from a pretend "journalist".
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 21, 2011 17:33:02 GMT 1
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 22, 2011 13:33:51 GMT 1
Just found this email from Joe Smith and Roger Harrabin to Mike Hulme in the latest Climategate (II) release of emails (3757.txt)
date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:37:59 +0100 from: J.H.Smith@open.ac.uk subject: Rio+10 and the media to: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk
Dear Mike
We are writing to some alumni of the University of Cambridge Media andEnvironment seminars gathering ideas for the BBC's coverage of the Rio+10Earth Summit in a year's time. Before the Rio summit, the BBC held the One World festival, which included some memorable broadcasting - particularly a feature drama on refugees. Some broadcasting is already in the pipeline that will relate to the themes of Rio+ 10, but this is an open opportunity foryou to put forward ideas that will be collated and circulated amongst relevant BBC decision-makers.
* What should the BBC be doing this time in terms of news, current affairs, drama, documentaries, game shows, music etc? * How can the BBC convey the theme of sustainable development to viewers and listeners who have probably seen all the issues raised before? * Is there any scope for a global broadcasting initiative? * What are the strongest themes and specific issues that should appear in the media in the months and years following the conference?
If you have thoughts, please send your reply both to this email and copy toharrabin1@aol.com. We will also draw on the information gathered in planning a new three year programme of media seminars.
Best wishes
Joe and Roger
Joe Smith and Roger Harrabin University of Cambridge Media and Environment Programme Tel Joe: 01223 ****** Tel. Roger: 0207 ******
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Post by marchesarosa on Nov 22, 2011 13:43:44 GMT 1
Is this evidence of an influential clique, or is it a conspiracy? Or neither, or both?
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