Alison CreeksideMay 20, 2023
Prof. Julia Steinberger reports
that for 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth, but says every single journalist there she spoke to said, "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
She is asking people to spread the word about this.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1659429887751405569.html
#beyondgrowth #beyondgrowth2023
Thread by @JKSteinberger on Thread Reader App

@JKSteinberger: As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, b...…

Show threadMaarten PelgrimMay 21, 2023
@AlisonCreekside maybe this is true for English newspapers. I know of several good Dutch ones who will happily publish articles critical of economic growth
Show threadAlison CreeksideMay 21, 2023

@maartenpelgrim And that's absolutely great and good for them but I think @boud 's point still stands here. Where were The Guardian, The Telegraph, NYT, Washington Post, Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, El País, etc etc.? You know - legacy news sites that everyone reads on a regular basis

I plugged "Beyond Growth 2023 Conference" into Google & Google News and got only Resilience & euronews back. #beyondgrowth2023

Show threadMaarten Pelgrim

@AlisonCreekside @boud ok, I guess the Netherlands is not the center of the world, but I still think there's some nuance to be made. Take for example this article by Kate Raworth in the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/apr/06/kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-new-economics

For sure it's from a while ago, but it is clearly critical of economic growth.

Old economics is based on false ‘laws of physics’ – new economics can save us

It is time to ditch the belief that economies obey rigid mechanical rules, which has widened inequality and polluted our planet. Economics is evolving

The Guardian
May 21, 2023 at 6:12pmWeb
Show threadBoudMay 21, 2023

@maartenpelgrim @AlisonCreekside

The standard model of media in market economies (Herman-Chomsky) [2] *is* nuanced - the filters are statistical.

Steinberger's observation is anecdotal, but is consistent with the apparent lack of 'newspaper of record' coverage of *this* meeting @EU parliament (@fulelo did BBC World Service cover it?).

Instead of inches of column text, a systematic analysis could use word counts (and the updated filter 5; ad funding=filter 2) [2].

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

Propaganda model - Wikipedia

Show threadAlison CreeksideMay 21, 2023
@maartenpelgrim @boud
It's a great article and it's also 6 years old.
What @jks Prof. Julia Steinberger was speaking out about was that not only has legacy media declined to write about a 3-day conference at the EU parliament on #beyondgrowth, but that journos she spoke to at that conference said writing about it was discouraged.
And I still don't see any mention of the #beyondgrowth2023 conference in legacy news out there.
Show threadMaarten PelgrimMay 22, 2023

@AlisonCreekside @boud @jks I agree. And on top of that it also seems that this article is more or less the exception that proves the rule.

So I'm also a bit curious @jks : did you find out why it was discouraged?

#beyondgrowth2023