People have been noticing that today's media seems to make every story into a climate crisis, no matter how innocuous, and though the media claim to stand for freedom of speech, devoted to accuracy and the truth, they never seem to publish any dissenting views on climate change at all. If anything, they mock anyone who dares even show a hint of interest in a rational, dissenting view. A recent case is that of a story in the "Daily Skeptic" which related that 1,200 scientists and scholars dispute the claim of a climate emergency. The think tank in question is CLINTEL - the climate intelligence organization based in The Netherlands. An Alberta mayor innocently retweeted the story with the two words "Interesting Article" only to find himself embroiled in a media flare-up, claiming he was supporting denialist, misinformation, forcing him to backtrack. Of most interest to Friends of Science, is that the media managed to smear the mayor for his retweet and to denounce the Daily Skeptic a paper 'that is disinformation clickbait,' but they never interviewed anyone from CLINTEL! Michelle Stirling, Communications Manager for Friends of Science Society, explores journalistic ethics, as written, versus journos in action. She discusses a recent survey done in Canada by a collection of journalist groups, which claimed to show that scientists, journalists and the public want climate change covered as a crisis... but Prof. Emeritus DK Johnson of University of Victoria, a professor of logic and philosophy, shows that the survey was fundamentally flawed in that the journalists made no effort to discover whether there really is a climate crisis or not. What do you think about media coverage. Leave us a comment! We're in our 20th year of operation. If you like the work we do, we are asking if people would give us a $20 donation to help us continue. etransfer: contact@friendsofscience.org

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