Exxon-Mobil get 'Inconvenient Truth' thrown out of classrooms
Charming to the last the oil industry is. From a report on Conscious Earth:
'The producers of An Inconvenient Truth have offered to supply American classrooms with 50,000 copies of the movie free of charge. That offer has been rejected by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the nation's leading science education teachers group, citing a risk to funding from key financial supporters. One of those supporters is Exxon-Mobil.'
Of course where there's a scabrous oil company at work, there's also Laurie David industriously beavering away to expose them. You can read the whole piece here.
'I sandbagged you?'
And if that doesn't keep you entertained you can amuse yourself with this little gem - well there is a tenuous link to Larry David there...
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Apparently Laurie David finds the truth inconvenient. According to an NSTA statement (http://www.nsta.org/pressroom&news_story_ID=52959), while they did not agree to distribute the DVD directly, THEY DID offer to make the DVD available through other means of distribution (making its mailing list available, through publications, at its conference etc). Apparently, Ms. David and her representatives never replied to this offer. Why would she not respond at all to this offer, and instead choose to skewer NSTA in the national media? Sounds to me like Ms. David was less concerned about getting this movie into the hands of science teachers, and more concerned about creating media buzz conveniently timed with the release of the movie on DVD. Whether or not she ever sees a penny personally is irrelevant. I guess this is the danger of accepting an op-ed piece as truth, convenient as it may be.
Posted by: Lenny Walters | November 28, 2006 7:56 PM
Saw this last night, not bad, wouldnt be against showing it in schools
Posted by: podge | December 4, 2006 9:58 PM