"Los Angeles Times" will offenbar 100 Stellen streichen
Weniger Print-Abos, weniger Werbeeinnahmen, Verlagerung ins Digitalgeschäft - das macht vielen Zeitungen zu schaffen. Bei der "Los Angeles Times" soll nun offenbar ein Fünftel der Redaktion entlassen werden.
"California is suing five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, alleging that they engaged in a 'decades-long campaign of deception' about climate change and the risks posed by fossil fuels that has forced the state to spend tens of billions of dollars to address environmental-related damages.
"State Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta filed the lawsuit Friday in San Francisco County Superior Court alleging that Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP and the American Petroleum Institute have known since the 1950s that the burning of fossil fuels would warm the planet but instead of alerting the public about the dangers posed to the environment they chose to deny or downplay the effects."
"It was a life of getting to places fast, of tips, winks and confidences. Verzi drove a VW Beetle and traveled with cameras and colored index cards for autographs." —For #LosAngelesTimes, Jeffrey Fleishman tells the fascinating story of an eccentric celebrity photographer.
In light of the paper from Geoffrey Supran, @rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes showing that #Exxon predicted #GlobalWarming extremely accurately between 1977 and 2003, contradicting their decades of #ClimateDenial, this exchange between Rep. AOC and Exxon scientists is worth revisiting.
...had already been known since the Oct. 23rd, 2019 "House oversight subcommittee on civil rights [hearing, which had taken place] just a day after #ExxonMobil began a trial in New York City over misleading investors on the business risks from government rules meant to address the climate crisis,..." caused by the 2015 "...publication of an investigation by #InsideClimateNews , the #LosAngelesTimes and the #ColumbiaJournalismSchool."