As Nails Go Into Coffin of #ExxonKnew, Desperate Rockefeller Groups Give Each Other Awards – Again
Friday September 9, 2016
With New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman completely abandoning the #ExxonKnew narrative – leaving the attempt to link Exxon to Big Tobacco for dead – activists have resorted to their usual stunts.
The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) has just given its annual Award for Outstanding In-depth Reporting to InsideClimate News for its #ExxonKnew series, published last fall.
It should come as no surprise that SEJ and InsideClimate News are funded by the same organizations, including the Rockefellers. SEJ has received funding from the Rockefeller Family Fund, which also funds InsideClimate News. The both also receive funding from the Grantham Foundation, which recently gave InsideClimate News a gift of $1.5 million. Also of note, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund donated $1 million to Lost Light Projects, specifically earmarking the funds “For its InsideClimate News project.”
This comes just a few weeks after Columbia School of Journalism awarded its John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism to InsideClimate News, also for its #ExxonKnew series. That panel of judges included completely objective folks like 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, who has called the Rockefellers a “great ally.” The Columbia School of Journalism’s Energy and Environment Reporting Fellowship – also funded by the Rockefellers – produced the #ExxonKnew pieces that appeared in the LA Times, which were notably similar to InsideClimate’s series and hit around the same time last year.
So again, we have another Rockefeller-funded organization awarding a fellow Rockefeller-funded organization for its work on pushing t...