Vanity Fair
So Vanity Fair has put out another ‘Green’ issue ….
And the reaction has ranged from downright condemnation, kudos for trying, and top marks for the cute, cuddly widdle polar bear on the cover.
Here’s some of the strident criticism that their inaugural ‘Green’ edition was met with.
Here’s the woeful tale of how they couldn’t quite get it together to use recycled paper (this primarily deals with the last issue, sadly they don’t seem to have moved on), and also here.
Other outfits have managed to take a more practical approach to publishing a green issue, either to making the commitment to more sustainable manufacture, or by avoiding it altogether and only publishing online.
If you can bear it - and I hardly could - you may want to see what those dedicated soldiers of truth, justice and the American way at Newsbusters say, as they salivate over a National Review article slamming environmentalists, journalists and polar bears (ok, maybe not polar bears, but I bet they hate them too).
April 18th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
vf are still catering to their market. and why wouldn’t they?
the fact that they’re covering the issues (if not with depth, then at least in breadth) is a good thing. it sure beats features on manhatten apartment living or boob jobs, or whatever else it is they usually cover.
if we’re talking about the impact of major print media then look no further than the recent green issue of fortune mag. it includes a piece on yvon chouinard - the original green biz guru (he’s the perfect real world role model in my mind).
cheers
mike
April 18th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Enjoyed the pice on Rush Limbaugh by James Walcott, tiled “Rush to Judgment” it includes l;ots of lovely little diatribes like this:
“For us non-dittoheads (that is, the unconverted), a more fitting memorial to Mount Rushbo might be a diorama of the environmental destruction that he did so much to enable in his multi-decade reign of denigration. Global warming’s most popular denialist, talk radio’s most imitated showman, conservatism’s minister of disinformation, he has injected millions of semi-vacant American skulls with a cream filling of complacency that has helped thrust this country into the forefront of backward leadership. He has given Republican lawmakers the rhetorical cover fire to do nothing but snicker as the crisis emerged and impressed itself on the rest of the world. He conscripted concern for nature as just another weapon in the Culture Wars. May the grasses of his favorite golf courses go forever yellow and dust storms whip from the sand traps.”
April 18th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Cool… I read the National Review article in a short couple of seconds and spotted the author doing the usual right-wing trick of attributing fake arguments to fake people with fake attitudes so he could rubbish the idea of doing anything because the environmentalists don’t all wear hair shirts.
F-him and the horse he rode in on thank you very much. I am AMAZINGLY tired of having the same BS half-truths waved about as if they were revelations from the almighty and reasons why business must go on as usual. The same crap about the poor not being helped because money to help them will be diverted to the work we do to prevent or adapt to the climate troubles that ARE coming.
Since we have helped the poor so poorly in the past, what makes anyone think that any aid they aren’t going to get anyway is to be the source of the $$$ that we spend on improving our energy technologies?
Sorry, I am having a “Bill-the-Cat” moment…
respectfully
BJ
April 18th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
If they gave Rush an enema they could bury him in a shoebox.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:31 am
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/05/skeptic200705
Well, this is a pretty good model for an interview with a climate skeptic. Instead of letting them have the last “balancing” word, let them speak, then get real scientists to dissect each of their pronouncements.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Boy what a lightweight. And he is the best the climate change denialists can do. I love the way he’s saying at the same time, Climate change isn’t happening, and yes it’s happening but global warming is good!
Hilariously enough, even Exxon Mobil has stopped funding this bunch of clowns.