🧵 The #LAFires are the REAL story of "Landman," one that #BigOil sellouts and propagandists #BillyBobThornton, #JohnHamm and #TaylorSheridan won't touch with a ten foot pole.
Is #Landman compelling television. Sure (though it's already getting a little stupid). Is it also thinly veiled, ham-fisted #BigOil -servicing, anti- #EnergyTransition, #Climate-worsening #Disinformation & even outright #Propaganda? Without a doubt. By every definition of the word.
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /2
When your fictional TV show serially erects strawman arguments & makes untrue claims about real world, critically important issues like the global #EnergyTransition you're now more than a writer, an actor or a co-star: you're now a propagandist. That's not refutable.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/06/anti-renewable-influencers-parrot-takes-from-fictional-series-landman/
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /3
#TaylorSheridan 's #Yellowstone had a few eye rollers early on but waited a few seasons before *really* talking down to its audience. #Landman 's gruff anti-hero™️ mansplains how-the-world-works™️ to its silly little lady™️ in the first few episodes & it only gets worse each week.
Your sample clip is here. By all means tear it to shreds,
https://www.tiktok.com/@landmanpplus/video/7443932966599888174
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /4
To be clear, I think #BillyBobThornton was a top shelf actor. I'm sad he's a propagandist now. I've liked almost anything I've seen #JonHamm in. I'm sad he also is a propagandist now but that's the nature of #Propaganda: whatever else you think you are, if you're creating it, you're a #Propagandist.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /5
Landman creates a whole new enormous audience for a dangerously bad, outright false viewpoint with a strong countering voice presenting the truth entirely & even comically absent.
It's prime, super-debunkable, openly propagandistic message is that:
❌ global #EnergyTransition isn't really a thing
❌ and won't be for a long time
❌ besides any alternatives don't work
❌ and any alternatives are just as bad as #OilAndGas
A big sloppy wet kiss to the oil billionaires.
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /6
Haven't had the stomach to watch last week's show yet but absent from all 8 previous #Landman episodes is any mention whatsoever of the ever-worsening #ClimateDisasters we now all face. That's what makes #JohnHamm, #BillyBobThornton & #TaylorSheridan's show actually monstrous & unforgivable.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /7
"Newsweek discovered most of what Norris said in the viral scene was either false or deeply misleading."
That's just one segment from one show. It of course went spread like, well, WILDFIRE amongst the #FarRight #Denialist #MAGA types, benefiting the wealthiest industry on the planet that has disinformed the world on #ClimateChange for decades. Despicable.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-taylor-sheridan-landman-hit-writing-misleads-1995622
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /8
"Landman is Lying To You"
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/nle8Ngvo3fM?si=TL4HvrQtqGdw5xLo
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /9
Just because #Landman's polemics are what oil people tell themselves or may even believe doesn't mean it's not #disinformation when presented on a tv show from the mouth of the series hero absent any pushback whatsoever on an enormous platform. That's disinfo &
propaganda and its not "fine"
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /10
This week as #LosAngeles becomes the latest city forced to evacuate as yet another climate-worsened #wildfire licks the city's edge I'll reiterate: 9 episodes in & this #BigOil championing show HASN'T EVEN ONCE mentioned #ClimateDisasters. It's not just propaganda. It's DEADLY propaganda.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
Landman Petroganda 🧵 /11
#LosAngeles is the historic heart of film and tv. I hope the entire industry begins asking uncomfortable questions of these propagandists today. #BillyBobThornton needs to answer for this. #JohnHamm needs to answer for this. #TaylorSheridan needs to answer for this.
#Landman #BigOil #ClimateCrisis #Petroganda #EnergyTransition #Climate #Propaganda
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