Oil group gives award to Murdoch editor

An oil industry lobbying group has given an award for “Media Excellence” to a leading global warming denier employed by Rupert Murdoch’s national daily, The Australian. What a surprise.

PR Watch, a U.S.-based group that watches such things, dubs it the “Slick Award”:

The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) , a peak lobby group for the oil industry and opponent of government’s taking strong action on global warming, has awarded the the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence to the editor-in-chief of The Australian newspaper, Chris Mitchell. … The media release announcing the award stated that “over the past twelve months The Australian’s in-depth coverage of a range of public policy issues affecting Australia’s upstream oil and gas industry has been of a consistently high standard.”

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