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Brian Lowry, a former TV critic for the Los Angeles Times who now writes for the trade paper Variety, slammed tonight's MSNBC eco-documentary by anchor and bicyclist Chris Hayes: the editorial approach of this Chris Hayes-hosted hour continues an all-too-common trend of cable news preaching to the choir, where not a single dissenting voice is incorporated in any serious way.
It's called "The Politics of Power." Lowrys liberal enough that he conceded agreement with the notion that there is no such thing, scientifically speaking, as a credible dissenting voice on the subject of climate change. But hed like a program where Hayes invites the global-warming "denialists" and makes them squirm in the hot seat like a classic 60 Minutes patsy:
The left always views resistance to the greens as a corporate conspiracy: Hayes draws a direct comparison to the days when the tobacco lobby insisted nicotine is not addictive.
Lowry noted the Hayes special includes goofy-sounding tape clips from Sen. James Inhofe and other critics, but no interviews. Did MSNBC ask such officials, and nobody would participate? Thats certainly possible, given the way politicians now gravitate toward friendly media venues where they know theyll be served up softball questions. But theres no mention of anybody declining such a request, he wrote.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/08/16/tv-critic-slams-msnbc-chris-hayes-climate-change-documentary-without-dis#ixzz2cBAGbMYX
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Here we go - the deniers