BIG Mouth

Dear gentleman at the restaurant who told me that he is instructing his children to avoid having kids because "It's unfair to have kids with the soaring temperatures and the climate catastrophe": Our weather here in Vancouver continues to be beautifully unpredictable in the short term but pretty darn steady – as documented in the adjacent chart using data from Environment and Climate Change Canada – when you look at the big picture. And the global...

If you believed that the U.S. election was a case of Good vs Evil, you received information from unreliable sources. Some of those sources are now busy sticking microphones in the faces of hicks from the sticks in an effort to make it look like the U.S. simply has too many dumb people who don't understand left from wrong. The truth is that millions of U.S. residents lost faith in a Democratic Party that portrayed itself as morally...

It occurred to me today that alarmists have ruled the societal roost in recent years because they try harder. When generally ill-informed climate warriors come across a (usually bogus) piece of climate science or journalism, the alarmists unite and go nuts. They blog, vlog, protest, post, and share the heck out of content that has convinced far too many that the world is burning and that every major storm is a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. Meanwhile, intelligent, rational...

Sure, it’s fun to play around online and have Google tell you what you WANT to hear — The 'bias machine': How Google tells you what you want to hear It sure makes us feel smart and virtuous. But it is very important to drop by BIG-Media.ca and be exposed to what you NEED to hear from time to time. Imagine how much stress and embarrassment you could have avoided if, as COVID-19 raced around the world,...

Many in my network believe that the answer to a badly broken mainstream media model is to follow alternative news sources. Some of those fiery upstarts are pushing back hard against the establishment, publishing news and opinions that contradict the ubiquitous garbage we have been seeing from large news organizations in recent years. Have these alternative voices brought truth and integrity back to the news industry? Nope. Not even close. Same crap. Different piles. In the last four years,...

Many people thought that I was crazy to have seven children. Many think it is irresponsible to have a large family with Earth's population having surpassed 8 billion. Many believe it is selfish to have any children at all because of the "climate catastrophe". (Those quotation marks are there for a reason. Stay tuned for more on that.) In reality, our world has more than enough space and resources for us as we develop more efficient and...

I don't like to brag (says only someone who is about to brag), but we have produced a heck of a lot of exceptional journalism in the 3+ years since launching BIG Media. To back up that claim, I include below a list from A-Z of topics that we have covered. And I don't mean the kind of articles that you see at our news rivals' sites – typically featuring a few expert quotes (aka agenda-driven...

Media literacy is arguably one of the most important issues in a world increasingly dominated by power- and money-hungry politicians, corporate executives, environmental leaders, and medical officials. Bad actors line their pockets and fill ballot boxes with little or no pushback from an increasingly unhealthy (Life Expectancy) , poverty-stricken, and ill-informed public. It's just too easy. The news media industry – with its consistently biased and inaccurate content – is largely to blame, but a lack of...

Most of us have at least an inkling that we have been misled terribly by news organizations in recent years. But how do these high-powered teams of journalistic elite get things so wrong? It is actually fairly simple, and in this article I dig into the details to help readers better understand how they have been led down the garden path by the former bastions of editorial integrity. If you are a subscriber of The New York...

The world is awash in misinformation and disinformation. Be it mainstream media organizations, social media influencers, politicians, medical officials, environmental leaders, or the person who dominates the discussion at your dinner party – you are being lied to. No, we are not in the throes of a global climate catastrophe. No, the main driver of climate change is not the oil and gas industry. No, it did not make sense for healthy people to take any of the COVID...