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June 3, 2009
This is doing the rounds today, raising chuckles as it goes.
THE editor-in-chief of The Australian, Chris Mitchell, has won the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence for leading the newspaper's coverage of climate change policy. The award is presented each year by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association.
For the first time, the judging panel presented the award to an editor rather than a reporter or columnist. APPEA chief executive Belinda Robinson said that over the past 12 months The Australian's "in-depth coverage of a range of public policy issues affecting Australia's upstream oil and gas industry has been of a consistently high standard".
An honour richly deserved.
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I love a good joke in the morning.
I infer that the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association has clicked to postmodernism's sense or understanding of irony. They now realize that truth and honours, just like beauty, are something merely constructed, bound by culture, hemmed in by psychology, framed by gender, driven by economics, warped by language, distorted by the powerful, tied to the patriarchy and the domination of nature, and totally relative always. Only the naïve or those who wish to dominate believe in any kind of cross-cultural (or inherent) truth, cross-cultural (or inherent) beauty, or a hierarchy of any kind.
I didn't realize that the fossil fuel energy crowd were so philosophically sophisticated.