...the state broadcaster (BBC) is a corporate member of the Media Trust which, in turn, is a member of the International Broadcasting Trust, which is paid by the Government (DFID) to lobby the … er … BBC about climate change.

[Tunderbar]

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=83332

Climate change: another of those interesting networks
Richard North, 14/11/2012

Despite the refusal of the BBC to reveal the details, the truth will
out. We now have the list of members of the seminars organised jointly
by the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) and Cambridge Media and
Environment Programme (CMES), aimed at changing BBC policy on climate
change.

Already, via the Register, we know something of the CMES, established
by activist Joe Smith and the BBC's Roger Harrabin. CMEP received
funding from the hardline green organisation WWF and the UK
government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It
later transpired that £15,000 was also received from the University of
East Anglia - the institution at the heart of the Climategate scandal.

However, equal partner in the enterprise is the IBT, about which less
is known. The accounts of this charity, though, show that in the five
years ending 31 December 2011, it was paid no less that £397,691 by
DFID.

Thus, we have an organisation which, by its own account, "lobbies
Government, broadcasters and regulators to promote high quality
broadcast and online coverage of the developing world, its people and
the issues which affect them" – including major input on climate
change – yet has been paid just short of £400,000 of taxpayers' money
to do so.

Based at the CAN Mezzanine in Loman Street, SE1 – sharing,
incidentally, the building with the likes of the UK Lesbian & Gay
Immigration Group - its Head of Campaigns is Sophie Chalk, the
Chairthing of the Trust is Kate Phillips, of the Board is John
Whittaker, the Secretary is Richard Sumray, and Mark Galloway is
director.

As well as all that, in this "trust" we have yet another of those
networks of influence. It represents a coalition of international
charities, the members including: ActionAid, Amnesty International,
British Red Cross, CAFOD, Care UK, Christian Aid, Comic Relief,
Concern UK, Friends of the Earth, the Media Trust, Merlin, Oxfam, Plan
UK, Practical Action, Progressio, RSPB, Save the Children, Sightsavers
International, Skillshare International, Tearfund, UNA UK, UNICEF UK,
VSO, the World Association for Christian Communication, World Vision
and WWF.

However, apart from the "usual suspects" such as Friends of the Earth
and WWF, there is a particularly interesting member of the IBT – a
trust which, as one will remember, lobbies the BBC. That is the Media
Trust. And the "corporate members" of this trust are … the BBC as well
as Sky, ITV, News International and Google.

Neglecting the other delicious members, and focusing on the BBC, it
seems we have a situation where the state broadcaster is a corporate
member of the Media Trust which, in turn, is a member of the
International Broadcasting Trust, which is paid by the Government
(DFID) to lobby the … er … BBC about climate change. And so the circle
closes.

Small wonder it is really that the BBC did not want too much of a
spotlight focused on these seminars.

[Desertphile]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:54:46 -0800 (PST), Tunderbar
<tdco...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Newsgroups: alt.global-warming

Wrong newsgroup again, Shit-for-brains. Good fucking grief.

--
"Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded
or revised." -- Dr. Carl Sagan

[Tunderbar]

On Nov 19, 12:17 pm, Desertphile <Desertph...@spammegmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:54:46 -0800 (PST), Tunderbar
>

> <tdcom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newsgroups: alt.global-warming
>
> Wrong newsgroup again, Shit-for-brains. Good fucking grief.
>
> --
> "Whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded
> or revised." -- Dr. Carl Sagan

It's about the BBC's coverage of the agw issue. you idiot.