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Why did Kumi Naidoo leave Greenpeace’s top job before a replacement was found? The Guardian prints clichés and asks no hard questions.
On the last day of 2015, the UK Guardian published a 2,000-word article about Kumi Naidoo, whose six-year tenure as head of Greenpeace International has now ended. The Guardian sees itself not as a news source duty-bound to provide readers with a range of viewpoints so that they can make fully informed decisions. Instead, it’s an eco propaganda machine, a self-professed climate campaigner. Its newsroom takes sides, knows who the good and bad guys are, and where the truth lies.
This makes for bad journalism, shallow thinking, and wasted opportunities. For example, this article tells us that
Naidoo slaps the table, and says: “It is wrong for humanity to think that we can live in a way that shows no regard to animal and…
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