The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page is perhaps the most
influential outlet for climate denial and rarely gives its readers
accurate information about how fossil fuels cause global warming.
A new ad campaign from The Partnership for Responsible Growth seeks
to fix that, giving readers real facts on climate change and driving
them to pricecarbon.org to
learn about solutions. Yesterday, they kicked off the campaign with a
quarter-page ad in the Journal’s opinion section featuring the headline:
“Exxon’s CEO says fossil fuels are raising temperatures and sea levels.
Why won’t the Wall Street Journal?” (Good question!) The Washington Post has the ad for you to see, as well as the inside scoop, revealing
tidbits such as how the paper charged nearly $10,000 more for the first
ad that calls out the WSJ than it did for the next dozen that don’t
explicitly reference the paper. (The WSJ disputes that claim, responding
that the first ad is simply full price while the rest are discounted…)...more
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