You may be surprised to learn that The Times is the newspaper I read the most. It's less surprising if you know that it's the newspaper we give away free on board our trains!
It has actually grown on me over the years, more so since Rupert Murdoch saw the light about climate change - although whether he actually believes it or whether he just saw a bandwagon is open to speculation. Certainly in the UK, The Times, The Sun and Sky News have been making all the right noises in recent years.
It was still a nice surprise this morning to pick up The Times and discover a 20-page supplement called The Climate Challenge: 'The fierce urgency of now'. It was printed to accompany the St James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium, a gathering of Nobel prize winners hosted by Prince Charles to chew over what climate change means for a whole range of sciences.
The supplement was a pleasant enough read, if you can call reading about the End Of Civilisation As We Know It "pleasant". It's nice to consume something produced for a mass readership which takes climate change as a given and doesn't try to present "both sides". If only The Scotsman could learn this lesson, although given the hatred towards environmentalists on the Scotsman letters page and website comments perhaps their regular readers don't want to hear they're on the wrong side of a debate which is over.
1 comments:
Actually, both the Sun and the actual News of the World have had excellent green sections recently, clear and passionate tabloid arguments for sustainability.
Mixed into car ads, mind, but still very pleasing. It's believed to be the younger Mr Murdoch who gets it, incidentally.
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