MEDIAWATCH: That Q+A Atlas Network interview reeked of right of reply, not a serious critique

The last Q+A of 2024 also carried a very weak story on The Atlas Network.

Like really weak.

Like, oh come on, this is weak.

My suspicion is that the piece was NOT an investigation of The Atlas Network at all and was in fact a right of reply that Atlas demanded after Debbie mentioned them 5 times in her interview the week earlier.

The piece was not critical of The Atlas Network in any way shape or form, it was a spineless right of reply.

Here is what George Monbiot says…

And who, in turn, are the junktanks? Many refuse to divulge who funds them, but as information has trickled out we have discovered that the Atlas Network itself and many of its members have taken money from funding networks set up by the Koch brothers and other rightwing billionaires, and from oil, coal and tobacco companiesand other life-defying interests. The junktanks are merely the intermediaries. They go into battle on behalf of their donors, in the class war waged by the rich against the poor. When a government responds to the demands of the network, it responds, in reality, to the money that funds it.

…Oil, coal, tobacco, right wing billionaires, the fucking Koch brothers, dark money influencing our political system so much so that we see the exact same agenda being rolled out here!

The Atlas Network has threatened The Daily Blog FFS!

Are we honestly being asked to believe that Whena Owen is anywhere on the same level of expertise as THE George Monbiot from the fucking Guardian?

Come on.

It was a puff piece that must have been a right of reply demand from Atlas.

There’s just no way Whena Owen could actually be this dim.

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