The more I think about this the more egregious it gets. The paper of record letting its flagship podcast be sponsored with a message of blatant climate misinformation during a major climate summit. I would love to know what @mikiebarb makes of this
https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1460998705734197264
My guess is he has no idea who's running ads on any given day, because that's how it usually works with this stuff. The industry tells itself that this strict wall of separation is sufficient, but to a reader it's all part of the same package.
My general assumption is that a place like the Times or the Post has stricter ad standards than like, Infowars or whatever. And that they won't try to sell me brain pills or scams or flat-out lies.
But man, taking fossil fuel money to run fossil fuel misinformation on your flagship podcast during the biggest climate summit in recent memory... like if I were Barbaro or a climate reporter there I'd be fucking livid.
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