12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal

Business & Media Institute ^ | 12/2/2009 | Julia A. Seymour

[Delacon]

This is a great roundup of the newsworthyness of climategate and the media's attempt to squelch the many stories that should be covered.

[Delacon]

newsbusters couldn’t have written a better article

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Excellent roundup.

[opentalk]

The GE networks have too much vested. They need to keep selling Green.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

This is pathetic! Is there anyone left who doesn’t believe the media is the whack left’s 2 dollar whore?.....

[Soul of the South]

Is it a story if no one reports it?

Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News is 78 years old. When he retires or dies, and professional “management” takes over, the network will likely fall in line with the others. The only remaining obstacles to government news will be talk radio and the internet. Expect some combination of local access, licensing renewal review, and “fairness” doctrine to strangle dissenting points of view from talk radio. Hate speech laws and controlled access can be used to shut down free speech on the internet.

In five years the progressives won’t need to be bothered by the rank and file citizens being stirred up by alternative media. The population will be informed properly by the elites on a need to know basis. Without being bothered by complex issues, the average citizen will be free to focus her/his attention on important things such as American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.

[20 years too late]

con·spir·a·cy (kən-spîr'ə-sē) n. pl. con·spir·a·cies 1.An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. 2.A group of conspirators. 3.Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. 4.A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas. [Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman, probably alteration of Old French conspiration, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōn-, from cōnspīrātus, past participle of cōnspīrāre, to conspire; see conspire.] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Cite This Source Legal Dictionary Main Entry: con·spir·a·cy Pronunciation: k&n-'spir-&-sE Function: noun Inflected Form: plural -cies Etymology: Latin conspiratio, from conspirare to conspire —see CONSPIRE 1 : an agreement between two or more people to commit an act prohibited by law or to commit a lawful act by means prohibited by law; also : the crime or tort of participating in a conspiracy —compare SUBSTANTIVE CRIME NOTE: Some states require an overt act in addition to the agreement to constitute conspiracy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- chain conspiracy : a conspiracy in which the conspirators act separately and successively (as in distributing narcotics) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- civil conspiracy : a conspiracy that is not prosecuted as a crime but that forms the grounds for a lawsuit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- criminal conspiracy : a conspiracy prosecuted as a crime 2 : a group of conspirators Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc. Cite This Source

[GraceG]

Why would they mention Climate Gate and expose the piss poor reporting they have been doing for the last 20 years......

[Reaganesque]

I have been to the CNN and CBS websites and they have web articles about Climategate. It’s the equivalent of a newspaper covering the story on page 42 just under the obituaries. But hey, they covered it!

[Skooz]

BFL

[bert]

Roger Ailes, Neil Cavuto

[La Lydia]

While the MSM try to ignore, cover up and downplay this fraud, Jon Stewart did a number on it last night, basically outing them and making fun of Algore into the bargain. So now it is in the public realm despite the MSM, and the next step has to be a Saturday Night Live skit on this scandal, unless Jeff Zucker steps in and stops them. You can run, but you can't hide. This is worth a dozen MSM nightly news reports.

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" quipped, “Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!”

Stewart described leaked e-mails from Britain's University of East Anglia, including one referring to a researcher's "trick" to "hide the decline" in some temperature readings in recent decades.

"It's just scientist-speak for using a standard statistical technique — recalibrating data -– in order to trick you," Stewart said sarcastically.

[Delacon]

Yeah, I watched that clip. I laughed my ass off right up to the point where Stewart admonished the scientists for “cutting corners” and hurting the global warming alarmist movement. The scientists in question did not “cut corners”. Thats like saying that they used shoddy data gathering techniques. Thats not what happened. They lied and suppressed theories and data that dissagreed with their agenda. Big difference there Stewart.

[bobsatwork]

Can you imagine the CBSNBCABC coverage if:
A drug company threw out raw data, and kept only the “value added” stuff on their products? Or a financial firm bragged about using a “trick” to “hide the decline” in their funds? Or if a tobacco company, anticipating FOIA requests, sent e-mails instructing people to delete e-mails, and bragged that they have already deleted lots of them? Any of these would make the lead story with special banners and theme music. And yet we have all of this, and much, much more, and nada from the networks.

[Rca2000]

They have been too “busy” with “other “stories”

First—trying to bash (unsuccessfully)—Sarah during her book tour.

When that didn’t work—they all turned on Tiger....and are still there.

[ryan71]

They ignore the truth, they make up lies, their ratings plummet, and still they scratch their heads and blame others. Truly satanic.

[denydenydeny]

You would have thought they might have learned their lesson from the Van Jones mess, when faithful viewers of the network news suddenly received the information that Jones had resigned. For network news watchers, this came as a bolt out of the blue, while viewers of Tox News saw it coming for days.

[litehaus]

"anyone left who doesn’t believe the media is the whack left’s 2 dollar whore?....."

Paging Walt Duranty of The NYTimes !!!

[La Lydia]

Of course he is an idiot with no knowledge of the scientific method. But he served a useful purpose by getting it out there and, perhaps, making some of his blind followers think about what’s happening. They lied. They hid and distorted data. They are scum. He, however, proved himself very useful despite the fact that he didn’t fully realize what has happened.

[Billg64]

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