Posted on 11/06/2008 9:05:40 AM PST by ventanax5
Just as you were slammed as a Japan-basher, you've been called a denialist (and worse) for your climate-change views. Do you think that stands as another example of how the media stifle debate?
The truth is, we live in an age of astonishing conformity. I grew up in the 1950s, supposedly the heyday of conformity, but there was much more freedom of opinion back then. And as a result, you knew that your neighbors might hold different views from you on politics or religion. Today, the notion that men of good will can disagree has disappeared. Can you imagine! Today, if I disagree with you, you conclude there is something wrong with me. This is a childish, parochial view. And of course stupefyingly intolerant. It's truly anti-American. Much of it can be laid at the feet of the environmental movement, which has unfortunately frequently been led by ill-educated and intolerant spokespersons—often with no more than a high-school education, sometimes not even that. The media might stand as a corrective, cool and a bit detached, showing by example how to approach information and controversy. Instead, the media has clearly caught the fever of our intolerant times. Formerly, news people would never openly state their allegiance; young reporters understood it was poor form, and a senior person would carry the caution born of the experience that at least some of what one believes in the course of one's life turns out to be wrong. But it's a new era. Now, media reporters are proud to pound the table and declare their advocacy. Since so few of them have any training in science, they don't really know what they are pounding about, when it comes to global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
You show good reasons why the media is dying today. I to grew up in the 50’s.......glad I was able to see what the good life was. Gone but not forgotten.
“Today, the notion that men of good will can disagree has disappeared”
Something for all the “I hate Mccain because of his Immigration positon” people to think about ...perhaps we won’t find the perfect canidate....but just the best one we have available.
You must be joking. Oh. Wait. HappyinAZ. Sorry.
No problem...I’m happy to be the “men of goodwill” catagory. Thanks.
LIMBAUGH: The Crichton/Heston Takes on GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com ^
Posted on Wed Dec 8 13:37:10 2004 by Grendel9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1297121/posts
Charlie Rose - An hour with Michael CrichtonThe discussion about global warning beginings about 25 minutes in. It's great TV. Although Crichton supported Al Gore for president, he considered Gore's views on global warming absurd. It's worth watching just to see Charlie's incredulous reaction to Crichton's sensible criticism.
Global Warming on Free Republic
The truth is, we live in an age of astonishing conformity. I grew up in the 1950s, supposedly the heyday of conformity, but there was much more freedom of opinion back then. And as a result, you knew that your neighbors might hold different views from you on politics or religion. Today, the notion that men of good will can disagree has disappeared. Can you imagine! Today, if I disagree with you, you conclude there is something wrong with me. This is a childish, parochial view. And of course stupefyingly intolerant. It's truly anti-American. Much of it can be laid at the feet of the environmental movement, which has unfortunately frequently been led by ill-educated and intolerant spokespersons -- often with no more than a high-school education, sometimes not even that. The media might stand as a corrective, cool and a bit detached, showing by example how to approach information and controversy. Instead, the media has clearly caught the fever of our intolerant times. Formerly, news people would never openly state their allegiance; young reporters understood it was poor form, and a senior person would carry the caution born of the experience that at least some of what one believes in the course of one's life turns out to be wrong. But it's a new era. Now, media reporters are proud to pound the table and declare their advocacy. Since so few of them have any training in science, they don't really know what they are pounding about, when it comes to global warming.
Whoops, sorry, should have looked first. [blush]
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