Climate Politics / denial

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Mod note:

Moved from the other thread. There is another thread about the reaction to Greta Thunberg and media reaction tk her, so perhaps a new thread is more suitable for this.

Thanks. I knew it didnt really belong in other thread, so shouldnt have posted it there.

As for Adam Boulton, I would be a fairly regular viewer. He got very snippy with Polly Toynbee earlier too and declared himself very sniffily to be an "impartial reporter". But to my mind, he comes across quite regularly as being quite far to the right on all issues from brexit to the climate. I seem to remember he was being touted as a replacement for Alastair Campbell under the blair regime, so whatever that suggests, i'm not sure. His quite, mumbling style, as you put it, can occasionally work well, but just think the mask slips all too often and he gets too heated in his questioning. Klein was clearly a bit taken aback by the aggressiveness of his approach - seemed to suggest the protests were some kind of marxist conspiracy at one point - but was far too clever to be rattled and handled him with some aplomb i thought.

Its fine him asking the question about people being disrupted going to and from work, its the vehemence with which he pursues this line which disturbs me. It was there in the Klein interview and with Polly Toynbee earlier and i've heard him close to losing his rag about it several times over the past few weeks/months. It's as if he takes it personally in some way. Reminds me a bit of Pat Kenny a few years back when his usual professionalism sometimes went out the window on the climate issue and he'd start getting lippy with the likes of John Gibbons and other climate change campaigners. Not sure where Kenny stands on it these days, though, as dont tune in to newstalk very often.