Posted on 02/16/2023 11:10:08 AM PST by JV3MRC
ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environment, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident.
A recent MRC study revealed that the Big Three broadcast network’s morning and evening news shows all but dropped coverage of the Ohio disaster once residents were permitted to return home Feb. 8. Between the incident’s genesis on Feb. 3 and the evacuation order for East Palestine being lifted on Feb. 8, all six shows fell just shy of spending a combined 30 minutes on the topic. The networks largely regurgitated the public relations gaslighting by the Norfolk Southern Corporation, the owner of the railway responsible for the derailed train. “[R]eporters approached statements by Norfolk Southern and the Ohio EPA – both of whom had a blatant incentive to downplay the seriousness of the situation – with slavish credulity,” NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and NewsBusters Media Editor Bill D’Agostino wrote. But nearly a week after residents were permitted to return home on Feb. 8, the Big Three rediscovered the topic Feb. 14 after it became clear that they were the three most prominent networks that had stopped covering it. But it gets worse.
It turns out that ESG-obsessed investment giants like The Vanguard Group, JP Morgan Investment Management and BlackRock Fund Advisors, are Norfolk Southern’s largest shareholders. The combined stake between the three shareholders is valued at a sizable $9,392,760,704 as of Feb. 16.
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Warren Buffet?
Warren Buffet?
He’s the only one still playing with trains ?
Nothing to report. It is not like it is Flint Mich and Donald Trump is president.
Vanguard may be more or less ESG but not sure it is ESG-obsessed. I’m more inclined to believe the problem is someone doesn’t want NS to take the hit when they can successfully blame Trump and republicans and get away with it.
BINGO!
Sounds like environment, social, governance is a real money maker if that many companies are in on the scam.
At least 13 states launched inquiries into Vanguard precisely over its fixation on ESG investing. Yes, it most definitely ESG-obsessed. https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2022/11/29/fox-business-13-states-wage-regulatory-war-vanguard
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