Drilled
161 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2K ratingsA true-crime podcast about climate change, hosted and reported by award-winning investigative journalist Amy Westervelt.
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Special Episode: Generation Green New Deal
October 18, 2020 22:11 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBIn this episode of Generation Green New Deal, Drilled host Amy Westervelt co-hosts with Sam Eilertsen to look at what happened to block climate action in the 90s and and 2000s, why various fossil fuel industry strategies worked at the time, and what makes the youth climate movement's approach different and more effective. Check out Generation Green New Deal wherever you get your pods! https://www.podlink.to/generationgnd
S5 Ep4 | The Secret Tribunal
October 16, 2020 15:06 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBIn September 2009, Chevron filed an international arbitration claim against the government of Ecuador over the Lago Agrio case. In the years since the company has pointed to the decisions of that arbitral panel as something akin to court decisions, but they're not—arbitral tribunals exist to help companies protect their profits, and are largely conducted in secret. This system has been quietly shaping environmental and climate policy for years. In this episode, expert Marcos Orellana walks us...
S5 Ep3 | The Trial
October 09, 2020 15:02 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MBThe trial gets underway in Ecuador, an election changes the calculus, and a global PR war kicks into high gear. Support our work: patreon.com/drilled
S5 Ep2 | The Colonizers
October 02, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBHow did this case come about in the first place? We go back to the early days of oil colonialism in Ecuador, in the 1960s, the partnership between oil men and missionaries, and the impact on indigenous communities in the Amazon. Support our work: patreon.com/drilled Read more: https://www.drillednews.com/
S5 Ep1 | Lockdown
September 25, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBIn August 2019, an American lawyer was put on house arrest as he awaited trial on criminal contempt charges. The charges stem from a decades-long case that began with pollution in the Amazon and has since spanned continents and courtrooms while the victims—indigenous tribes in the Ecuadorian Amazon—continue to seek justice. Welcome to Season 5: La Lucha En La Jungla.
Introducing Unfinished: Short Creek
September 14, 2020 07:21 - 25 minutesIn this episode we bring you a conversation with climate and religion reporter Ash Sanders about where her two beats intersect. Then we showcase a preview of Unfinished: Short Creek, the latest investigative true crime podcast from Witness Docs and Critical Frequency. A divided community in the desert. A prophet with total power. A battle over family, home, and the limits of religious freedom. Short Creek, located on the Utah/Arizona border, is home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Chri...
Climate Podcast Bonanza!
August 29, 2020 00:48 - 28 minutesIn addition to S5 of Drilled (coming soon!), Critical Frequency is putting out a terrific slate of great climate and environment podcasts this fall. Check out this sampling, then go subscribe so you won't miss them! Inherited: http://podlink.to/inherited Hot Take: http://podlink.to/realhottake Generation Green New Deal: http://podlink.to/generationgnd Hazard: http://podlink.to/hazard No Place Like Home: http://fanlink.to/noplacelikehome
Climate Podcast Bonanza!
August 29, 2020 00:48 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MBIn addition to S5 of Drilled (coming soon!), Critical Frequency is putting out a terrific slate of great climate and environment podcasts this fall. Check out this sampling, then go subscribe so you won't miss them! Inherited: http://podlink.to/inherited Hot Take: http://podlink.to/realhottake Generation Green New Deal: http://podlink.to/generationgnd Hazard: http://podlink.to/hazard No Place Like Home: http://fanlink.to/noplacelikehome
Big Oil Fighting Divestment + Sneak Preview of S5!
August 22, 2020 04:25 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBA few weeks ago the Trump administration quietly proposed a rule that would make it harder for financial managers to investment retirement funds in environmentally or socially responsible ways. The fossil fuel industry had been calling for the rule and praised it, noting that the divestment movement has become a serious problem and reduced its access to capital. Journalist David Sirota broke that story and joins us to explain. PLUS: a sneak peek of S5. Check out David's newsletter: https://si...
That Ohio Utility Corruption Scandal, with Leah Stokes
August 01, 2020 03:12 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBThe FBI arrested Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, Larry Householder, this month for racketeering, or as the state attorney general put it "bribery, that's what it was." Private utility First Energy bribed Householder and a handful of other state politicians to pass a corporate bailout that kept coal and nuclear plants open and crushed renewables. UC Santa Barbara political science professor Leah Stokes, author of the book Short Circuiting Policy, joins to tell us all about it. L...
California City
July 29, 2020 15:02 - 50 minutes - 57.3 MBWhat if you were told buying a piece of land in the Mojave Desert could help you be rich one day? That was the dream developers of California City sold to thousands of people. But the reality is much different. California City – the new podcast from LA-ist Studios – chronicles the dark side of the American Dream, where those thousands of people were left with land that is nearly worthless.
A Proposed Fossil Fuel Ad Ban in The Netherlands
July 14, 2020 02:58 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBAn advocacy group in The Netherlands began campaigning for a ban on fossil fuel ads, including event sponsorships, earlier this year. Campaigner Femke Sleegers joins us to explain the roots of the campaign, its goal, and the initial response to it. More information: https://verbiedfossielereclame.nl/dutch-citizens-initiative-ban-fossil-fuel-advertising/
Pioneering Fracking Company Chesapeake Energy Goes Bust
June 30, 2020 05:14 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBDespite tax breaks, royalty cuts, and other COVID-related incentives, Chesapeake Energy—a pioneer in the American shale gas (fracking) industry—declared bankruptcy this week. It's the first example of what we expect to be many of the government throwing good money after bad in attempts to use COVID relief funds to shore up companies that were failing long before the pandemic hit. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled
Minnesota and D.C. File Climate Fraud Suits
June 26, 2020 08:06 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBTwo big new suits, in Minnesota and D.C., were filed within 24 hours of each other and allege the same thing: that fossil fuel companies misled consumers about climate change.
Big Oil's Multi-Billion-Dollar Blind Spot
June 18, 2020 05:34 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBA new report from Carbon Tracker finds that not only have oil and gas companies not been budgeting for plugging and abandoning wells, they've been grossly underestimating the cost of that work, especially for fracking wells. The COVID-19 pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Report co-authors Rob Schuwerk and Greg Rogers join to talk about the size of the problem, the cost, and who will ultimately pay. Report: https://carbontracker.org/reports/its-closing-time/ Support us: https://www.dr...
Yes, It's Still Time to Talk About Climate (from Hot Take)
June 14, 2020 18:12 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MBAmid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, some climate activists have been saying "now's not the time to talk about climate." In this episode we bring you an encore presentation of the latest Hot Take episode, in which Amy and Mary Annaise Heglar talk about how justice is justice; the idea that climate and racial justice are all the same thing, and can't be separated. To access the full-length episode, and weekly roundups of climate justice and accountability writing, reporting and analysi...
Introducing: So Hot Right Now
June 08, 2020 13:05 - 8 minutesChristiana Figueres shares her formidable optimism and negotiating skills with us so we can all get better about telling stories about nature and climate. This episode sets the scene: 2020 was supposed to be THE pivotal year to slow climate change and avert natural system disaster. COVID has changed everything. Have we been derailed? What do we need to do and what stories will get us there? Christiana also shares her top practical tip for something we can all do to help the planet from lockdo...
Naomi Klein and How the Shock Doctrine Applies to America Right Now
June 07, 2020 05:46 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBNaomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine focused on what she calls "disaster capitalism," the sort of corporate feeding frenzy that happens in the wake of major crises. It was on a research trip for that book, to post-Katrina New Orleans, that she connected her work on human rights and labor to climate. Klein shares that journey here, explains the Green New Deal, and talks about what needs to happen to spur a justice-focused transformation in the U.S. You can find Naomi's many great books here:...
What Shell Knew: A Surprising Report from The Netherlands Finds that Shell Was Directly Funding Climate Denial in the 1990s
May 29, 2020 20:45 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBReporters Alexander Beunder and Jilles Mast have been combing through 150+ boxes of documents from the personal archive of one of the Netherlands' top climate skeptics during the 1990s, a guy named Fritz Böttcher, and made a shocking discovery: throughout his career Böttcher received direct funding from Royal Dutch Shell. It's part of a large project called the Shell Papers at the Platform for Authentic Journalism, in the Netherlands. Read more: Shell Papers: https://www.ftm.nl/dutch-multinat...
No, Climate Action Will Not Be "Just Like Quarantine Only Worse" — Why Letting Go of the Climate Narrative Never Works, a Special Bonus Ep f
May 22, 2020 17:27 - 9 minutes - 13.5 MBLast week, The New York Times ran a story on the GOP's favorite new climate narrative: If you think quarantine is bad, just wait til the Dems impose climate action on you. In this special ep from Hot Take, with Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt, we look at how that narrative came about, why it's striking a nerve, and how to wrestle the climate story back. Subscribe to Hot Take: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Listen to Hot Take: https://podlink.to/realhottake
No, Climate Action Will Not Be "Just Like Quarantine Only Worse" — Why Letting Go of the Climate Narrative Never Works, a Special Bonus Ep from Hot Take
May 22, 2020 17:27 - 11 minutesLast week, The New York Times ran a story on the GOP's favorite new climate narrative: If you think quarantine is bad, just wait til the Dems impose climate action on you. In this special ep from Hot Take, with Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt, we look at how that narrative came about, why it's striking a nerve, and how to wrestle the climate story back. Subscribe to Hot Take: https://realhottake.substack.com/subscribe Listen to Hot Take: https://podlink.to/realhottake
The Climate Deniers Have Lost Their King, and Still They Soldier On
May 19, 2020 18:06 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBIn April 2020, Fred Singer, longtime king of the climate deniers, died at the age of 95. In this episode, investigative reporter Dan Zegart, author of the book Civil Warriors, about the 1990s tobacco litigation, joins to talk about Singer's place in the history of science denial. Connor Gibson, an investigator with Greenpeace also joins to talk about the climate denial machine Singer built, the legacy he leaves behind, and whether the COVID-19 pandemic may topple science denial and fake free ...
The U.S. Government Has Been Rubber-Stamping New Oil and Gas Projects—This Lawsuit Hopes to Change That
May 09, 2020 02:27 - 17 minutes - 23.4 MBA lawsuit filed against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over a small project in Massachusetts could have big implications. It aims to force FERC to comply with an order the courts gave it back in 2017, and that it's been ignoring ever since: to evaluate the overall emissions and climate change impact of any new energy project. The case has particular relevance right now as FERC has been rapidly approving every project that crosses its desk. Adam Carlesco, the lead attorney for...
Old and Wrong: Leah Stokes on the Many Flaws of Michael Moore's Planet of The Humans
April 29, 2020 21:49 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBPolitical scientist and environmental policy expert Leah Stokes joins us to discuss the many things the new film Planet of the Humans gets wrong about renewable energy, environmentalists and the fight for climate action. Related stories: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change https://www.drillednews.com/post/planet-of-the-ecofascists https://www.drillednews.com/post/is-your-power-company-a-climate-denier Support our work: https://www.drilledne...
Old and Wrong: Leah Stokes on the Many Flaws of Michael Moore's Planet of The Humans
April 29, 2020 21:49 - 27 minutesPolitical scientist and environmental policy expert Leah Stokes joins us to discuss the many things the new film Planet of the Humans gets wrong about renewable energy, environmentalists and the fight for climate action. Related stories: https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/21238597/michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-climate-change https://www.drillednews.com/post/planet-of-the-ecofascists https://www.drillednews.com/post/is-your-power-company-a-climate-denier Support our work: https://www.drilledne...
Earth Day in Louisiana: A Petro-state Fights Back
April 22, 2020 10:03 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBOn the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and the week of the 10-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater oil spill, we head to Louisiana to talk petrochemicals, petroleum, plastic, fossil fueled philanthropy, and how the pandemic is affecting it all. Fossil-Free Fest: https://www.fossilfreefest.org/fff2020/ Bucket Brigade: https://labucketbrigade.org/ Healthy Gulf: https://www.healthygulf.org/ Support us: https://www.drillednews.com/support-us
Computer-Aided Destruction: Art, Autodesk, and What Accountability Looks Like for the Tech Industry
April 22, 2020 07:48 - 20 minutes - 28.4 MBFrench artist Joanie Lemercier has been a thorn in Autodesk's side for more than a year now, since he first pointed out that the California software company's computer-aided drafting (CAD) software keeps Europe's largest coal mine operating. Tech reporter Maddie Stone started looking into it, and found that Autodesk software is used by not only coal mines but also to design oil and gas pipelines, and for all sorts of other extractive purposes. It's a window into a broader discussion around cl...
HEATED Ep 6: "I don't need the access anymore"
April 17, 2020 12:32 - 42 minutesMSNBC’s Ali Velshi has been an extreme weather reporter, he’s mastered explaining the DOW and now he’s one of the most visible journalists bringing consistent climate reporting to a large audience. Ali joins us to trace his evolution as a reporter, why a scoreboard makes it easier to keep people focused and the paradox a smog-free LA being good TV. Velshi brings his trademark candor and clarity to a conversation that takes us behind the scenes of one of the country’s largest news organization...
How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
April 16, 2020 14:18 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MBIn a new report, the Center for International Environmental Law looks at the way oil, gas and petrochemical companies are leveraging the pandemic to push policy and increase profits, and whether these efforts will ultimately be successful. Carroll Muffet, one of our S3 experts, joins to walk us through some of the key points of the report, including how the industry is using the pandemic to push more single-use plastics. Read the report: Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the C...
There Will Be Fraud: How Big Oil Is Using the Pandemic to Push More Plastic
April 16, 2020 14:18 - 18 minutesIn a new report, the Center for International Environmental Law looks at the way oil, gas and petrochemical companies are leveraging the pandemic to push policy and increase profits, and whether these efforts will ultimately be successful. Carroll Muffet, one of our S3 experts, joins to walk us through some of the key points of the report, including how the industry is using the pandemic to push more single-use plastics. Read the report: Pandemic Crisis, Systemic Decline: Why Exploiting the C...
HEATED Ep 5: Rage Only Gets You So Far
April 15, 2020 07:01 - 37 minutesMary Annaise Heglar is a singular voice. She is uncompromising and unapologetic. Her recent Wired piece, “We Can't Tackle Climate Change Without You,” proved, once again, why she is one of our most vital climate justice writers and thinkers. A writer-in-residence at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, Mary is also fierce and funny and doesn’t just convey the facts about climate change. She conveys the truth. She brought her usual blazing candor to this conversation AND she gifted us a read...
There Will Be Fraud: In Colorado, Seniors Held Hostage by Fracking
April 15, 2020 04:02 - 12 minutesBecause of their proximity to oil and gas operations, residents of Broomfield, Colorado were at risk of exposure to flowback-driven air pollution during shelter-in-place orders, so the city issued an emergency decree for local operations to cease fracking flowback during the pandemic. Extraction Oil filed for a temporary restraining order to block the city's decree. It's the first test of Colorado's 2019 law prioritizing public health and safety over oil and gas production, which allows local...
In Colorado, Seniors Held Hostage by Fracking
April 15, 2020 04:02 - 10 minutes - 15 MBBecause of their proximity to oil and gas operations, residents of Broomfield, Colorado were at risk of exposure to flowback-driven air pollution during shelter-in-place orders, so the city issued an emergency decree for local operations to cease fracking flowback during the pandemic. Extraction Oil filed for a temporary restraining order to block the city's decree. It's the first test of Colorado's 2019 law prioritizing public health and safety over oil and gas production, which allows local...
HEATED Ep 4: Explain it to me like I’m a 5 year old
April 10, 2020 07:01 - 32 minutesDr. Aaron Bernstein has an extraordinary commitment to children. He’s a pediatrician and is the Interim Director at Harvard C-Change -The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Besides being a great human being, he’s one of the true experts on how the climate crisis is harming our health -- particularly children’s health. Sometimes it feels like the climate community talks a lot about “the future,” but we miss what’s right in ...
HEATED Ep 3: COVID-19 is the dress rehearsal for the climate apocalypse
April 08, 2020 07:01 - 34 minutesStrap in because environmental justice organizer Anthony Rogers-Wright brings the heat. In his role as the policy coordinator for the Climate Justice Alliance, Anthony advocates for a huge network of indigenous, urban black, and low-income communities on the front lines of climate change who all share one thing in common: they are all disproportionately harmed by the effects of climate change and pollution. As Anthony makes abundantly clear, the reality that we have to face right now is that ...
There Will Be Fraud: New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
April 07, 2020 15:05 - 23 minutesDr. Julia Steinberger, professor of social ecology and ecological economics at the University of Leeds, has published some really interesting research recently debunking some classic fossil fuel narratives around the industry's importance to society and human wellbeing. Here we dig into her latest study, which found that while fossil fuel use has certainly grown GDP, it has had no effect on life expectancy ... in other words the industry's "benefit" has accrued to relatively few humans. Study...
New Research Shows Fossil Fuels Are Not As Essential As The Industry Would Like You to Believe
April 07, 2020 15:05 - 21 minutes - 30.2 MBDr. Julia Steinberger, professor of social ecology and ecological economics at the University of Leeds, has published some really interesting research recently debunking some classic fossil fuel narratives around the industry's importance to society and human wellbeing. Here we dig into her latest study, which found that while fossil fuel use has certainly grown GDP, it has had no effect on life expectancy ... in other words the industry's "benefit" has accrued to relatively few humans. Study...
HEATED Ep2: Kate Aronoff - It's a Great Time to be Evil
April 03, 2020 07:01 - 38 minutesThe New Republic’s Kate Aronoff is our guest and shares some creative policy solutions to the climate and pandemic crises. In our conversation, we can’t help but notice that Washington has ZERO interest in creative policy. Quite the opposite, the fossil fuel and legacy polluters are clamoring for some of that sweet, sweet COVID relief money. They’re jamming their usual policy agenda while Republicans are shamelessly screaming it’s “not the time” to talk about climate policy. This seems like a...
There Will Be Fraud: Amid the Pandemic Free-for-All, Unlit Flares at Texas Shale Refineries Are Dumping "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane into the Atmosphere
April 03, 2020 06:11 - 13 minutesField investigator Sharon Wilson has spotted a troubling increase in methane emissions from refineries in the Permian Basin, in Texas. Things went from bad to worse in January 2020, and really blew up in early March ... almost as though they knew regulators wouldn't be watching. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled More reporting: https://www.drillednews.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Amid the Pandemic Free-for-All, Unlit Flares at Texas Shale Refineries Are Dumping "Unimaginable" Amounts of Methane into the Atmosphere
April 03, 2020 06:11 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MBField investigator Sharon Wilson has spotted a troubling increase in methane emissions from refineries in the Permian Basin, in Texas. Things went from bad to worse in January 2020, and really blew up in early March ... almost as though they knew regulators wouldn't be watching. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled More reporting: https://www.drillednews.com/
There Will Be Fraud: Reporter Justin Mikulka on Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Are the Biggest Opponents to a Shale Gas Bailout
April 01, 2020 17:19 - 15 minutesThe American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale gas companies as part of the coronavirus relief package. DeSmog's Justin Mikulka joins us to explain why. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Follow Justin's reporting: https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/27/shale-bailout-trump-oil-exxon-strategic-petroleum-reserve Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Reporter Justin Mikulka on Why ExxonMobil and Chevron Are the Biggest Opponents to a Shale Gas Bailout
April 01, 2020 17:19 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThe American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil and Chevron have been amongst the biggest opponents to bailouts for shale gas companies as part of the coronavirus relief package. DeSmog's Justin Mikulka joins us to explain why. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Follow Justin's reporting: https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/03/27/shale-bailout-trump-oil-exxon-strategic-petroleum-reserve
HEATED Ep 1: Bill McKibben on Solidarity in the Time of Social Distancing
April 01, 2020 07:01 - 36 minutesBill McKibben has been a leader in the climate movement for more than 20 years as a journalist, author, and co-founder of 350.org. Here he talks to HEATED's Emily Atkin about what the COVID-19 and climate crises have in common, the lessons both teach us about delayed responses, and how to continue collective action when everyone's at home on their own. Subscribe to the HEATED newsletter: https://heated.world/ Transcript: https://www.drillednews.com/post/heated-bill-mckibben-on-solidarity-in-t...
Drilled Presents: The HEATED Podcast
March 30, 2020 18:06 - 1 minuteThe HEATED podcast is a 6 episode, limited run series that shows how COVID-19 and the climate crisis cannot be separated. In a series of up-to-the-minute interviews with Bill McKibben, Mary Heglar, Anthony Rogers-Wright, Kate Aronoff and others, HEATED's Emily Atkin connects the dots on how two of the most pressing issues of our time are really one and the same. Subscribe to the HEATED newsletter: https://heated.world/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
There Will Be Fraud: How the Coronavirus Pandemic Turned into Christmas for Big Oil
March 28, 2020 02:39 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBThe oil and gas industry was headed for broke long before COVID-19. Now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it on life support, while the American Petroleum Institute uses it to get the industry's deregulation wishlist. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Read more: https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fund More from the ARO Working Group: https://www.arowatch.org/about-arowatch/
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Turned into Christmas for Big Oil
March 28, 2020 02:39 - 23 minutesThe oil and gas industry was headed for broke long before COVID-19. Now the Trump administration wants to use the pandemic to put it on life support, while the American Petroleum Institute uses it to get the industry's deregulation wishlist. Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled Read more: https://www.drillednews.com/post/will-pandemic-relief-become-a-petroleum-industry-slush-fund More from the ARO Working Group: https://www.arowatch.org/about-arowatch/ Learn more about your ad ch...
Special Episode—Hot Take: Seeing Climate Through Coronavirus Glasses with David Wallace-Wells
March 25, 2020 03:13 - 1 hour - 129 MBDrilled will be back with bonus episodes soon. In the meantime, check out one of our other climate podcasts, Hot Take. In this episode, hosts Mary Annaise Heglar and Amy Westervelt talk to David Wallace Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth and deputy editor of New York magazine, about the intersection of climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. Get ad-free eps and support Drilled's reporting: https://www.patreon.com/Drilled More reporting: https://www.drillednews.com/
S3, Ep 9: Jay Rosen and Nicholas Johnson on What the Media Can Do About Disinformation
February 29, 2020 08:01 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBThis season we've traced the creation of Big Oil's big propaganda machine. In this episode, the season finale, we look at what can be done about it now that it has delivered us into an era of disinformation. NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen and former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson join us to talk about everything from the Fairness Doctrine to cable access to today's "post-fact" world, and where we can really go from here. Special thanks to Mary Catherine O'Conner for additional reportin...
S3, Ep 8: Meet the Harrisons
February 28, 2020 09:27 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBE. Bruce and Patricia Harrison launched the E. Bruce Harrison Company in 1973 and ran it until 1996, working for a mix of chemical companies, oil & gas companies, and tobacco companies. E. Bruce is considered the father of environmental public relations ... or by his critics, "the godfather of greenwashing." Together the Harrisons ran multiple cross-industry coalitions and front groups, aimed primarily at stopping regulation on everything from smoking to carbon emissions. Today, Ms. Harrison ...
S3, Ep 7: John Hill and the Tobacco-Oil-Plastic Triangle
February 27, 2020 08:05 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBJohn Hill, founder of Hill & Knowlton, was an Ivy Lee devotee who worked for Standard Oil in the 1930s, strategized against labor movements and the New Deal, and wound up representing the American Petroleum Institute and the Tobacco Industry Research Committee—a fake research group formed by the CEOs of all the major tobacco companies in the 1950s—at the very same time. His manipulation skills were so good they even fooled the legendary Edward R. Murrow. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/Dr...