Fox News CEO Warms to Climate Change After Heat From Left

CNS News.com ^ | 11/9/2005 | Randy Hall and Marc Morano

[Dad was my hero]

By Randy Hall and Marc Morano CNSNews.com Staff November 09, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - A Fox News Channel documentary on "global warming," set to air Sunday night, provides only the liberal take on the controversial issue and was approved after environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly "dragged" Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to a lecture by former Vice President Al Gore, "kicking and screaming."

Clay Rawson, the Fox News Channel producer of the hour-long special titled "The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming," told Cybercast News Service Wednesday that the project "was a little bit different for us.

"Often on Fox News Channel, we present both sides, according to our 'fair and balanced' motto, but this is the global warming story," Rawson said. "We do make it clear that this is one side of the issue through inclusion of a disclaimer," he added. The documentary is said to ignore scientific skeptics who believe that human activity is not responsible for catastrophic climate change.

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[Dad was my hero]

Fair and Balanced will take a poke in the eye tonight. If they maintain a policy like this, they will watch as their viewership slips away and they become just another ABCBSNBCNN et. al.

[BibChr]

Wow, if that's true... I didn't know Ailes was a shallow idiot.

Dan

[marvlus]

Global warming is probably real, but I don't believe it is caused by man. It is caused by normal temperature cycles.

[Grampa Dave]

Fox news management should look at the stock of the NY Slimes, Wa Compost and Chicago/Tribune to see what happen to bearers of the left's lies:

NYT = NY Slimes

WPO = Washington Post

TRB = Chicago Tribune and LA Slimes

[Red Badger]

We must present both sides, even if the other side is a ding-bat looney lazy good-for-nothing raving lunatic moon-bat pseudo-science idiot!.................

[Red Badger]

Yes, Mother Earth is having HOT FLASHES in her middle age.......

[massgopguy]

That should read, :Former Heroin using Scag freak, Robert F. Kennedy".

[Red Badger]

You forgot RICH.......

[DTogo]

Bobby Kennedy Jr., the same Limousine Liberal who opposes an offshore wind farm near his Nantucket Mansion??

[johnny7]

Great... now tonight on 'The Panel' we can see Krautheimmer come out for Kyoto... and Fred Barnes laud the no-drill vote on ANWR!

[Dad was my hero]

But they made a conscious decision NOT to present opposing views.

[Sunshine Sister]

Those environmentalist wackos told me when I was in kindergarten that the polar ice caps were going to melt. At last inspection, they were still there! I'm considerably older than that now. They have yet to be right. Blow 'em off!

[asp1]

I saw this show advertised on Fox this morning. Fox is becoming harder and harder to watch. They started out with a good idea...sort of like MTV. MTV was great when it started back in '80 or '81, then some leftist got hold of it and now MTV stinks. Same thing's happening to Fox. There was a time when I watched Fox for at least 8 to 10 hours a day. Now I'm down to less than 30 mins. I will not be watching this show.

[HawaiianGecko]

	"Learn the facts about global warming and decide for your self what needs to be done about these new realities," Folbaum stated. How does one learn the facts if given only the Robert Kennedy Jr. and Laurie David slant of the story?

 

 

[Dad was my hero]

Yes, that same Bobby Kennedy Jr.

[Dad was my hero]

Doesn't it frost your butt? Sorry, shouldn't use "frost" on a global warming thread huh.

[blues_guitarist]

Am I the only one who's noticed a shift to the left by FNC lately?

I figure they're ramping up for the percieved DNC tidal wave that's supposed to be coming.

This isn't affecting Britt Hume's show, but the regular newscast portions have seemed awfully liberal to me lately.

[Huck]

Why would "fair and balanced" take a poke in the eye? The network is clearly slanted right. The presentation of one show that's off the reservation is a poke in the eye?

[x5452]

They finally run blatent propaganda and it's for the other side. Sheesh.

[nicmarlo]

Their "fair and balanced" reporting already has a black eye.....it started quite some time ago.

This "new" policy only confirms what many outspoken critics of Fox have been saying for a good 12 months or longer.

[Cecily]

Too bad Ailes isn't smart enough to arrange a debate on global warming with Michael Crichton and Bjorn Lomborg on one side, and all leftie moonbat comers on the other.

[rambo316]

You want to know something funny? In the wee hours of the morning when I am reading the news and resonding to my email, I thought I would write E.D. Hill a pithy little note because she started running off at the mouth about how she is really environmentally concious in her daily living. I almost put my foot in the tube after that one. I told Fox News that they have lost a viewer in me if they are going to start putting that environmentalwacko crap out on the airwaves.

[smith288]

I think they should put a disclaimer at the bottom of the screen throughout that says:

"This documentary only details one crackpot point of view that limits the scope to a few hundred years. Please take which a boulder sized grain of salt."

[Dead Dog]

This doesn't quite smell right. Ailes was a GOP activist for some time...I doubt were getting the full story from this.

[BibChr]

That's my suspicion... and my hope!

[Graycliff]

she got pretty warm during her growing years also. Most don't realize the majority of Nth America was under several thousand feet of sea water. There was an ocean went from the gulf of Mexico all the way up to the northern most point of Canada. West TX at 2300 ft above sea level is just an ancient sea bed.


My question is where did all the water go?
I've got a couple of questions I'd love to see answered.

Whats the lowest sea level we have record of, and whats the highest.

[Dad was my hero]

The network is clearly slanted right.

Clearly, there are those watching the same network as you that have different views as to whether they are "right, left or middle of the road."

Personally, having a long enough history as a liberal and being able to sniff out bias in either direction, I have felt they were closer to center (mostly right center) than any other network I've seen.

[x5452]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175036,00.html

Utter tripe.

[Red Badger]

There are Roman ruins in the Med and The Lighthouse of Alexandria is under water and remains of what appear to have been villages at the bottom of the Black Sea...........

[FishFace222]

I agree. I have an article from a retired geologist that talks about our increasing temperature. Our temps now are actually 1 degree C cooler than 150 years ago and 2 degrees C cooler than 1000 years ago. The earth actually went through a mini ice age from 1450 to 1850 that we are still recovering from. Our temperatures are still climbing from that time.

It all depends on what time period you are comparing to.

The article is in the Minnkota Messenger magazine, July/August 2005 and was written by John Bluemle.

http://www.minnkota.com/Documents/messenger/2005%20JulAug%20Messenger.pdf

It is on pages 6 & 7. Pretty interesting article.

[Red Badger]

Tripe doesn't come from utters. You must move a little more inward on the cow.........

[OK]

Hey Fox, you should also schedule these videos available for online viewing:

"Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What You're Not Being Told About the Science of Climate Change"


Climate Experts Speak Out in New Video - Science underlying Kyoto Protocol seriously flawed

OTTAWA, April 13 /CNW Telbec/ - Today, researchers at the University of Calgary, in cooperation with the Friends of Science Society, released a video entitled:
Climate Catastrophe Cancelled: What you're not being told about the science of climate change...

View free online now:

http://www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?ide=3

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[rambo316]

I never agreed with that Slogan, "Fair and Balanced". Life is either black or white. It is either true or it is false. Their slogan should have been, "We report the truth not lies".

[goldstategop]

Fox running a one sided DNC propaganda commercial disguised as a documentary? Gee, what a surprise!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Abathar]

I saw the advertisement of this last night and I grabbed the remote thinking I accidentally went to CNN. By the end of it I was yelling at the TV, wife thought I was crazy.

[Dad was my hero]

I find it a surprise. I wouldn't have thought they'd do such a blatant one sided piece on something as questionable as global warming theory. What other one sided DNC propaganda commercials disguised as a documentary can you think of?

[Always Right]

Global warming is probably real, but I don't believe it is caused by man. It is caused by normal temperature cycles.

And I thought my SUV driving melted the glaciers that covered Indiana and Michigan just 20,000 years ago...

[BibChr]

Yeah; heck, I might even watch that.

But they really think a lot of people will tune in to see the same old yadda-yadda-yadda on globarl warming from The Usual Suspects?

I'd rather watch The Usual Suspects again!

Dan

[Abathar]

What I would like to see is a breakdown of the "scientists" that are studying this and exactly where the money comes from that puts food on their table and gas in their cars.
How much of this is paid for by government grants and university funds, and how many would lose their meal ticket if it was ever disproved.

[Dad was my hero]

When I first saw the ad for it, I thought "from the title it sounds like it's going to be one sided but Fox wouldn't do that" so I thought I'd try to find out more about it. Shame on them for just promoting an agenda. Are they going to just tell Hannity that when he argues with Kennedy Jr on Hannity and Colmes that he's wrong and the science is in? Just accept it and move on?

[finnman69]

http://www.abd.org.uk/climate_change_truths.htm

[Graycliff]

I saw a show about the black sea, seems there was a level of freshwater mussels discovered at the bottom, proving it was once fresh water.

[Red Badger]

There is some evidence that the Flood Of Noah occurred when the link of land separating the Med and The Black collapsed and inundated the entire basin........

[Graycliff]

That was mentioned in that same show.


I keep hearing predictions of various ocean levels, if and when the global ice caps melt. One question I'd love to see asked is. If all the caps and all the glaciers were to melt, what would be the sea level then.

[Gumdrop]

Whatever is happeneing to old King Sol, I hope it continues. We've had a very enjoyable autumn up north in Minnesota-land.

[Paradox]

Am I the only one who's noticed a shift to the left by FNC lately?

Fox is going to do the same thing that CNN did, start out conservative, then slowly turn liberal. I submit to all this thesis, that it is virtually impossible for an entertainment/news service (ie, MSM, including Fox), to not aquire a liberals slant. It is a byproduct of a function of the entertainment/news, that is, to report on what is WRONG. Bad news is good news. Therefore, it leads to liberalism, because liberalism is the philosophy of those who see the cup as half full. As you are exposed to all this "bad news", you slowly become more and more liberal. Of course, this is a generalization, but I think it holds true probably in at least 80% of those involved in the MSM.

[mugs99]

Bobby Kennedy Jr., the same Limousine Liberal who opposes an offshore wind farm near his Nantucket Mansion??

Yeah, the same heroin addicted elitist who heads a group of lawyers devoted to extorting money from pork producers. "Fair and Balanced" has become a joke!
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[adorno]

I will not be watching this show.

I will not watch such garbage.

Shame of FOX!

Now, how about all you FReepers. Will you watch? There's no need to watch since most of us already know what the leftist environmentalist wacko position is on global warming.

I say we boycott FOX during that program.

[Clock King]

Look 'em in the eye, tell to act like an adult, put their emotions in check and prove that global warming: 1) is happening, 2) is a bad thing (why is it bad), 3) is caused by man's industry. Confront them like children and don't let them have their way.

[caprock]

We must present both sides, even if the other side is a ding-bat looney lazy good-for-nothing raving lunatic moon-bat pseudo-science idiot!.................

The "other side" had/has ample airtime. We're so saturated with the "other side's" point of view that complete censorship should be prescribed for detoxification.