CBS News has partnered with Climate Central to generate stories and “compelling visuals” about climate change

 Turning to experts for fact-based background information is standard practice in the news media. But openly “partnering” with issue-based organisations to produce stories is a violation of the trust between journalists and news consumers, Gary Abernathy writes.

“Audiences in nearly every country have seen Climate Central maps and visualisations, and read or heard commentary from [us],” Climate Central boasts, claiming its message reaches 170+ countries without listing them.

It’s not only corporate media that is being educated on climate change by partisan groups. It’s the US courts as well. Judges have been participating in an “educational programme” to convince them to side with climate activists in state and federal cases.

“When courts are ‘informed’ by ‘educational’ materials from outside groups representing a certain point of view, the fairness and independence that is the foundation of our judiciary system is seriously undermined,” Abernathy said....<<<Read More>>>...