Automated Propaganda

Automated propaganda is what we have become seasoned to over at the taxpayer-funded ABC and Environment scribe Sara Phillips and others have proved to be dab-hands at regurgitating spin devoid of analysis, it seems.

Sara laments A new website encourages visitors to flood comments sections of news articles about climate change with cut-and-paste comments. It's an idea that impoverishes us all.

When you read her article and names such as that of Al Gore and <cough – where’s my tissue> John Cook are mentioned as serious candidates, apparently, in the debate about whether or not the globe is on the cusp of boiling in oil, then you know Sara hasn’t been keeping up with the real science of climate change.

Memo to Sara:  Neither Mr. Sell-out-to-Al-Jazeera-Gore or John-Sceptical-we-censor-or-alter-comments-to-suit-our-brief-Science-Cook are credible witnesses for the defence.   Both have a rather infamous reputation have done untold damage to the warmist case. 

Some backgrounding on Cook and his collaboration with Stephan Lewandowski should have persuaded Sara to adopt some scepticism herself before devoting a minute of her time chasing up an interview with him.

However, to be fair to Sara, she seems to think Cook’s new project, that of flooding websites with mindless cut & paste commentary is not a particularly smart move – and it’s not.  However, one may say it’s rather typical of John Cook’s modus operandi.  I am led to believe he and his minions have been quite practiced at it for some time.

You can read Sara Phillips’ piece here.

Continuous use of automated propaganda in the mainstream media and taxpayer-funded outlets such as the ABC is why readers who know how to use a fact-checker treat these news publishers with considerable scepticism these days and why many now flock to Blogs for their daily dose of news and opinion.