Heartland Kicks Out Press From "Press Conference" In Paris; Fewer Than 30 In Attendance Anyway

[hatrack]

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Accredited journalists were kicked out of a sparsely attended climate denial conference hosted by the US oil-and tobacco-funded Heartland Institute today in Paris.

Heartland's ‘Day of Examining the Data’ event was repeatedly advertised as open to the public and media. However the freedom-of-speech espousing think tank had French security guards from the Hotel California outside the COP21 official venue remove DeSmog UK journalists.

Why? Because the 9 am press conference was now apparently a private event.

EDIT

With the two DeSmog journalists gone, this left the likes of Marc Morano from the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and Christopher Monckton preaching to a small choir of under 30 people, the majority of which were elderly men.

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http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/12/07/heartland-institute-kicks-journalists-out-public-climate-denial-press-conference-paris

[longship]

1. Marc Morono, douchebag extraordinaire! nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Thus proving that you *can* leave from the Hotel California! (nt)