Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Call On 60 Minutes For A Correction
Source: Media Matters
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a national community of over 850 business leaders, is calling on CBS to correct their most recent 60 Minutes report, "The Cleantech Crash." Simultaneously, a climate change advocacy group is calling for CBS to appoint a public editor to investigate its one-sided story, which followed a string of poor reporting from the program.
"The Cleantech Crash" aired on the January 5 edition of CBS' 60 Minutes, and shortly thereafter drew wide criticism from members of the clean energy industry and among energy reporters. In the segment, correspondent Lesley Stahl wondered if clean tech has become a "dirty word," and concluded,"instead of breakthroughs, the (clean tech) sector suffered a string of expensive tax-funded flops." But critics have pointed out that Stahl focused too narrowly on the failure of a few companies and ignored most of the industry's success. In an interview with Media Matters, San Francisco Chronicle energy reporter David Baker called the segment "a pretty poor piece of journalism," adding, "There are areas of this field that are hurting, but there are others that are doing very, very well."
E2 is now asking CBS producers for a correction to the "misguided" report, writing, "it was shocking for those of us who know about creating businesses, jobs and clean energy to see a respected news organization get this story so wrong in so many ways."
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At the same time, Forecast the Facts, a climate change advocacy group, is calling for 60 Minutes to appoint a public editor to investigate the "Cleantech Crash" segment and ensure that "all future reporting serves the public interest." The group organized a petition to be delivered to Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of 60 Minutes, asking him to "hire a Public Editor to investigate the broadcast immediately and ensure 60 Minutes' climate reporting is accurate." The petition already has thousands of signatures.
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Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/08/clean-energy-entrepreneurs-call-on-60-minutes-f/197489
riversedge
(70,214 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Remember that one?
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)"... a respected news organization..."
I thought they were talking about 60 Minutes...
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)The data also indicates that Koch Industries and ExxonMobil, two of the largest supporters of climate science denial, have recently pulled back from publicly funding countermovement organizations. Coinciding with the decline in traceable funding, the amount of funding given to countermovement organizations through third party pass-through foundations like Donors Trust and Donors Capital, whose funders cannot be traced, has risen dramatically.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-koch-brothers-reveals-funders-climate.html#jCp
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)disguised as normal reporting. That is the new big thing and I know that's how Limbaugh stays afloat. I remember a quote from one of the producers (I think) that said they wanted to move towards more income from advertising and "sponsored content". I thought at the time of the Benghazi story that the story was sponsored, but since the book publisher and 60 Minutes both had the same owner that money probably didn't change hands. This is different, it sounded like an infomercial. I'm wondering why they would report so much so incorrectly and not have a counterpoint in the story. I'll take sponsored content for the win.
peoli
(3,111 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)GETPLANING
(846 posts)Look at this.
http://www.barchart.com/stocks/sectors/industry.php
The Solar Energy sector is currently the #2 industry group out of 144. It has been #1 since November.
http://www.barchart.com/stocks/sectors/-TOP
Eight of the top 100 Stocks today are solar or wind energy companies. That's the top 100 out of tens of thousands of stocks. Seven are solar, one is wind. Another of the Top 100 is the company that makes the hybrid drivetrains for Fisker automobiles and another is Tesla Motors.