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Climate Activists Who Threw Soup at van Gogh Painting Are Changing Tactics | Just Stop Oil said it was ending protests in museums after achieving its initial demand. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In a statement, the campaign group said: "Just Stop Oil's initial demand to end new oil and gas is now Government policy, making us one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in recent history. We've kept over 4.4 billion barrels of oil in the ground and the courts have ruled new oil and gas licences unlawful."

The Labour Government has said it will not issue licences for new oil and gas exploration, while a series of recent court cases have halted fossil fuel projects, including oil drilling in Surrey, a coal mine in Cumbria and the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields in the North Sea.

Why is it framed this way in this article and headline? They're stopping because they succeeded.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Really? Source on the claim that ads influence individual journalists? That seems odd to me, since the journalists writing articles would have no clue about advertising.

Do you know about your company’s marketing mechanisms? Most people don’t, whether it’s about placing or receiving ads.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good. Go throw Spaghetti-O's at billionaires instead. Opening the can, optional.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

Freeze the can and use a hyneman/savage cannon to fire it through their chest.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 8 points 6 days ago

They met their goal: a ban on new licenses for oil and gas.

Yay!