It’s not sad in the least that the Washington Post has cut its climate “reporting” team down to five lonely reporters. [some emphasis, links added]
It is, in fact, encouraging that maybe we’re seeing the winding down of decades of political and scientific villainy disguised as concern for our planet. Give us more, please.
Not four years ago, the Washington Post announced it was “pleased to introduce” an “expansion of Climate coverage.” (Yes, Climate is so important to the Post that the “c” must be capitalized.)
Readers were assured the newspaper was “a major investment that is commensurate with the story of climate (but no upper case here — why not?) change and its profound impact on humanity and the planet.”
The Post nearly tripled the size of its climate desk, racking up a total of “more than 30 journalists” (activists, in reality), all “part of a newsroom-wide commitment to covering perhaps the century’s biggest story.”
WAPO lays off one third of staff- Fake News is going extinct-🦖🦖🦖
We are the media now!
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So big is the “century’s biggest story” that the Post cut the team to 19 last year, then just recently “sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists,” says climate blogger Sammy Roth (or is it 13?), citing “newsroom sources.”
The reductions were “part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs.”
Roth, a former Los Angeles Times global warming nag, whined last fall that “CBS News just gutted its climate team” and helpfully points out a report that found ‘across the globe,’ climate coverage ‘diminished 14% in 2025 from the previous year 2024 and is 38% lower than the highest year of coverage in 2021.”
As it turns out, “2025 coverage ranks just 10th in the past 22 years the researchers have “tracked coverage of climate change or global warming across the global news sources.”
There was never a good reason for the Post, CBS, or any other media outlet to field a climate team — unless the goal was to stir up fear to boost circulation and viewership.
Well, there was also that reckless business of handing activists a forum from which to hurl lightning bolts and wind turbine blades at the poor, benighted regular folk who just want to live their lives.
Blessedly, it appears that the days of constant harping might be nearing, if not an end, at least a reckoning with reality.
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