"The Guardian, climate and advertising."

Messrs Cromwell and Edwards of MediaLens send an open email to the Guardian’s George Monbiot.

Let’s accept for a moment that you are right when you say “I haven’t found an acceptable alternative” to the model of advertiser-supported mass media. So why continue focusing on this “unpleasant but apparently inescapable fact of life”? What does it matter if the Guardian’s revenue is unethical when it is such a simple matter to counter corporate propaganda within the paper as it exists, right now? This should be eminently possible if, as you say, there is not “any evidence that advertisers can influence editorial decisions on this paper”.

(via Instapaper)