Rupert Murdoch Has Known We've Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show

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EXCLUSIVE: VICE News obtained hundreds of pages of documents showing the climate strategy of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch: prepare for the emergency internally while publicly denying it exists.

Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show
Murdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
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6:09 AM · Sep 23, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7byqw/rupert-murdoch-climate-change-fox-news-news-corp


When Kevin Rudd was prime minister of Australia, he lived in fear of Rupert Murdoch. The Labour Party leader came to power in 2007 promising to address the climate emergency, but attacks from Murdoch-owned outlets were relentless to the point where Rudd said he’d “wake up every morning and wonder how they would seek to crucify us that day, with rusty nails.”

Papers such as the Australian, the country’s equivalent of the New York Times, ran high-profile pieces attacking Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, an attempt to force companies to pay for the climate-warming carbon they release into the atmosphere, including a front-page story about an industry report claiming the policy would cost 23,000 resource sector jobs. And it worked: Australian Parliament eventually voted against Rudd’s carbon-reduction effort, his public opinion rating tanked, his own Labour Party led a coup against him, and he resigned in 2010.

“If there was no Murdoch media here, or if, say, they only owned half the media instead of two-thirds of the media,” Rudd told VICE News, “we would have a carbon price today.”

What few people knew during all this is that the parent company of these Australian news outlets, Murdoch’s News Corporation, actually thought carbon pricing was a good idea. News Corp has meticulously documented its own carbon footprint since 2006 and sought to “take a leadership role on the issue of climate change” by reducing it, according to hundreds of pages of publicly available documents reviewed by VICE News.

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1. Fox News responds to Pfizer announcement by propagandizing against vaccination of children for COVID

This is nothing new for Rupert and Fox.


Fox News is a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

On the very day when Pfizer came out with good news about the vaccine that it looks to be safe and effective
in preventing the bad cases of the disease and deaths from the delta mutation of the covid virus in children Fox
News' Laura Ingraham had on disgraced heard immunity proponent and Trump pandemic advisor Dr. Scott Atlas
saying that kids really don't need the vaccine and beside not that many have died.

Fox News is a terrorist organization and they along w/Governors Noem, Tate, Abbot, DeSantis and other
GOP congresspersons are actively working to spread the virus. That fact can't be denied but my only
question is why?

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Fox News is now actively evangelizing against vaccinating children for COVID-19, following an announcement from Pfizer that the company would be submitting data to regulatory agencies on its study that it said showed “a favorable safety profile and robust neutralizing antibody responses” in children ages 5 to 11.

Just to be clear, The Washington Post points out that the data must still be analyzed by unbiased experts, and the study was small enough that certain rare side effects might show up only in monitoring as the vaccine actually gets administered in greater numbers. Nevertheless, it is a hopeful sign for health care workers, as pediatric cases have increased from the delta variant — with 1.1 million cases over the past five weeks — leaving children’s hospitals and intensive care units overwhelmed in states that already had low vaccination rates.

Notably, the increase in children’s cases has affected children with no other preexisting conditions, and doctors have also worried about the potential effects of long COVID-19 in children. But that was not the message on Fox News — a network that is notorious for propagandizing against the vaccines and celebrating vaccine refusal, even as it has instituted strict vaccination and testing requirements for its own offices.

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Fox host Laura Ingraham, who previously insisted that vaccinating children was “a non-starter for most parents” and “disgusting,” spoke with Hoover Institution fellow Dr. Scott Atlas, a radiologist who previously advised then-President Donald Trump to let the virus spread in order to achieve “herd immunity.”

The segment also featured a chyron throughout: “Profits over kids’ safety.”

https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/fox-news-responds-pfizer-announcement-propagandizing-against-vaccination