Category Archives: Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News on Climate Change
Recently the editor of MCFly and David Ottewell had an online exchange about the quality and quantity of the MEN’s coverage of Climate Change. It ended with a cyber-flounce and a request from MCFly that – if ‘trawling through the … Continue reading
Airport and Media- (straw)MEN behaving defensively
Dear David, thank you for your comment on the MCFly story “Men behaving inanely“, which followed on from our “Green Christmas, White Elephants and Unintentional larfs.” You write: We’ve put the airport’s ‘green’ credentials under scrutiny many times in the … Continue reading
Green Christmas, White Elephants, unintentional larfs
I love the Manchester Evening News. Actually, that’s not true. It’s an occasional pity purchase – I want to support the idea of a vibrant local media that keeps tabs on the Council and other unaccountable centres of power, breaking … Continue reading
MCFly 029- All Power to the… Council?
Manchester and Leeds recently got new powers – as “city-regions.” Announced at the Budget in April, it wasn’t clear if this was another Westminster PR stunt about “de-centralising” or a real deal. According to a blog post by the Manchester … Continue reading
Let there be light. Lots of it.
Was anyone in the city centre last night? According to an article in the Manchester Evening News, you couldn’t really tell it was Earth Hour (as organised by that well-known radical grassroots group WWF). The Big Wheel kept on turning, … Continue reading
MEN recycles recycling
On Tuesday March 17th the Manchester Evening News published the third of its (much delayed) Greenlife supplements. We are told on the front cover that there are “Virtuous circles: How recycling can save money and the planet.” Now, I am … Continue reading
Manchester Cartoonist gets more global coverage
Marc Roberts, who draws cartoons for Ethical Consumer and New Internationalist in addition to his Manchester Climate Fortnightly gig, has had another cartoon posted on the widely-read “Climate Progress” website. He’s also had several postings in each of Real Climate, … Continue reading
MEN not useless after all…
All those horrible things I wrote about the Manchester Evening News? All those sneering “unconstructive” comments? All the petty side-swipes? I take them back. WAY,FI? No I don’t. I take back that taking back. Dizzy yet? No, me neither; but … Continue reading
Educationally sub-normal sub-editor at MEN?
It’s usually the sub-editors who write the headlines to newspaper pieces. So rather than blame John and Anne Nuttall for “Icy peaks mock global warming” (Saturday 28 Feb, page 4 of Weekend pullout) above their piece on walking along the … Continue reading
Sadness piling up, and more useless MEN
Sadness about the Heathrow decision. I mean, I knew the government would do it. The 2003 White Paper was basically written by the aviation industry and sent over to the Department for Transport for mastheading and distribution. “Freedom to Fly” … Continue reading
