Journalists Offering No Tangible Benefit to Humanity
Journalism’s top awards ditch key sponsor because, well, what did fossil fuels ever do for anybody?
I’m not saying journalists offer no tangible benefit to society, but…
The Walkley Foundation, which exists to encourage excellence in journalism, has announced it will part ways with sponsor Ampol.
The reason?
Well, the Foundation says, fossil fuel companies like Ampol “offer no tangible benefit to humanity”.
So true.
I mean, apart from helping us to manufacture pretty much everything, fossil fuels offer no tangible benefit to humanity.
Oh, and apart from helping us to get pretty much everywhere, fossil fuels offer no tangible benefit to humanity.
Wait a minute, if the Walkley Foundation was serious about ditching things that offer no tangible benefit to humanity, they would campaign to defund the ABC.
I’m joking of course. We love our national broadcaster. How else would we know what woke is up to?
Greening Up
The move to dump Ampol comes after a green conga line of journalists and cartoonists protested the company’s sponsorship of last year’s Walkley Awards.
Oh, and some got their tabloids in a knot over the fact there was no award category for climate change reporting.
Well, there’s a climate change catastrophists award this year, and Ampol is gone.
The irony, of course, is that The Walkley Awards were established in 1956 by Sir William Gaston Walkley, who founded Ampol.
No tangible benefit to humanity indeed.
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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.
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