Within my March 23 blog post blog post about what appears to be enviro-activists’ gaslighting efforts to claim ‘reports on the climate issue are fewer than in prior years,’ I described how I created a daily email alert out of the Google organization for any story containing the words “global warming.” In predictable fashion, an article which is likely an outgrowth of the above gaslighting effort was one among those recent results, written by two ‘journalism professors’ for the Neiman Reports ‘leadership in journalism‘ website. Just from its title alone in the email alert – “What Is Happening to Climate Journalism?” – I could make an educated guess about its biased slant, and after reading its subheading “Amid layoffs and industry belt-tightening, quality of coverage, not quantity, becomes even more important,” I could guess with more precision what its massive irony was going to be within the article. Hence my facetious blog post title, a dig at why the ‘journalism professors’ ought to hand in their university resignations and sincerely apologize to all the students they misled over their teaching tenures – starting with the false premise right within their own article title.

“Climate Journalism.” Ever wonder why there are not entire fraternities of reporters specializing in …. Astronomical journalism? Chemistry journalism? Physics journalism?  Continue reading →