Turning doubt into a product.
Amy Westervelt
Amy is the executive editor of Drilled, an award-winning investigative climate journalist, and author of the book Brought To You By. She has been on the climate beat for more than 20 years, reporting for a wide range of outlets over the years, including Inside Climate News, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, NPR, and many more.
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S1, Ep3 | Weaponizing False Equivalence
The weaknesses in the U.S. media system that allowed climate denial to flourish.
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S9, Ep1 | The Panic
When broadcast news stations stand up to Mobil Oil, the company realizes it needs to go to bat for corporate free speech rights.
Posted inAdvertising and PR
Mad Men
To understand the current state of disinformation in the U.S., it helps to know the history of how and why the PR industry was created. In response to a protest, the country’s largest oil company sent in private security teams, who wound up killing several protestors, including women and children. The company’s spokesperson claimed the […]
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S1, Ep5 | Aggressive Think Tanks, Shouty Pundits, and a New Religious Argument
Shifting culture to enable the success of climate denial.
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New Oil Colonialism
For decades now, the fossil fuel industry has told the same story: Oil equals development and prosperity. Access. Equality. Stability. A better quality of life. As the world’s fossil fuel companies race to tap the last of the planet’s oil reserves we have a chance to examine that promise up close, in real time. What […]
