NY Times Heads Into Battle Vs. Trump Alongside Radical 'Youth Climate Activists'
Clay Waters
December 17th, 2024 12:12 PM
The New York Times huddled with the leftist “youth climate movement” as they girded for battle against Trump II, in a so-called news story that appeared in Thursday’s paper: “As Teens, They Fought Trump on Climate. Now What?” by Austyn Gaffney, who has previously written freelance for Rolling Stone, The Guardian, and Grist, three left-wing publications.
Activists in groups like the Sunrise Movement, Zero Hour and Fridays for Future have pushed for the Biden administration to step up climate action before its exit next month: They want land protected as national monuments, permits denied for liquid natural gas projects, funds allocated from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Dakota Access Pipeline shut down for good.
After the inauguration, they’ll retrench. They might ease off the mass marches and school strikes that built their platform, while refining new strategies like focusing on state politics, reducing the use of fossil fuels at a local level, and re-energizing the country to elect climate-conscious leaders.
The activists and the reporter were quite cozy -- almost like a huddle, as if Gaffney is plotting strategy and tactics against Trump alongside the kid radicals on climate (and Gaza, and capitalism, and whatever else.) The article even featured flattering posed photos and pull quotes from four youth activists.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2024/12/17/ny-times-heads-battle-vs-trump-alongside-radical-youth-climate
