Heartland Takes Bold Stand For Freedumb @ Climate "Conference" By Banning Reporter

The principled crusaders for free speech at the Heartland Institute today took the pragmatic step of banning credentialed journalists from its event fearing negative publicity.

Jim Lakely, the communications director for the oil and tobacco funded think tank, withdrew media credentials made and handed to Brendan Montague, editor of DeSmog UK, and asked hotel security to remove the reporter from the ICCC-10 event at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington DC.

Gene Koprowski, director of marketing, said he “refused to be drawn into a philosophical debate” when asked whether a think tank claiming to champion personal liberty and press freedom should begin blacklisting members of the media. Gene protested that he had been a journalist for 25 years but was simply following orders when implementing the ban.

Senator James Inhofe, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Environment, was the morning's keynote speaker as a handful of guests assembled in the hotel basement. Members of the press however were penned into a separate room to watch the speech on a livestream.

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http://www.desmog.uk/2015/06/11/heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit