1,200 Irish radio & TV programs to promote "Climate Action" in next 12 months. 5 million government investment

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I wasn’t planning to put pen to paper today but something noteworthy popped onto my radar. The sheer volume of nonsense spewing out of our various government departments, state agencies and semi-state bodies is quite staggering and often leaves me at a loss as to what topic to focus my writing on. My best source for current affairs writing material is quite simply trawling through government information website GOV.IE. The government quite often signal what they are really doing when attempting to brag about it on government press releases. Today, they’re championing the investment of 5 million euro into broadcasting. It is only when you dive into what exactly the money is being spent on do you begin to fully comprehend the full horror of what activity they are engaged in.

It is important not to forget what the number 1 global narrative is in Western civilization, and I am typing these lines down to remind myself as much as the reader. Our climate is the numero uno subject that our global overlords want to keeps us terrified of, primarily, as it offers the best method ( in their minds) of keeping our population under control. It is easy to get distracted away from this fact by migration issues, homelessness, wars , vaccines agendas and q plethora of other topics.

This is topical today because the Irish government via the Irish broadcasting authority have announced that they will be supporting the production of 1,200 radio and TV climate action programs to the tune of 5 million euro.

ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED!!

It gets better. Guess who this programming is being targeted at ?

15 - 34 year olds.

The awards are being made under a dedicated Climate Change and Climate Action Round of the scheme, which has been co-funded by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, to support new and relevant content to raise awareness of climate change and climate action.

In my opinion, this type of huge, direct intervention into our broadcasting arena is nothing short of dissemination of State propaganda pure and simple. On a controversial subject line where there has been almost zero societal debate on. This is tax-payer funded propaganda targeting our youth as far as I am concerned. A total of 25 applications have been successful and the funding will facilitate the production of ten (10) radio projects (€745,300) and 15 television projects (€4.1m).  Documentary and entertainment were the most popular genres funded (45% each), with the remaining projects falling under the education category. Five of the projects recommended for funding are in Irish or are bi-lingual. a quarter of the funded projects are aimed at the 15-34-year age group. ( courtesy of the BAI website)

According to the official government blurb the monies will be used as follows:

• Funding for over 1,200 new radio programmes across 24 stations

• Funded projects include documentary, entertainment and educational programming, with a quarter of the projects to receive funding aimed at the 15-34 age group

• New grants give media a ‘powerful role to play in building climate literacy, creatively and with public’

Speaking today Minister Martin said:

“The media sector continues to have a key role in informing and educating on the impact of climate change, but also in promoting awareness and highlighting the positive actions which we can take as we strive to achieve our climate targets. The projects being announced today will provide interesting and relatable content not just on climate change, but importantly on what we can do to help stop and reverse its effects.”

The full government press release on this climate funding can be accessed here

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