Politico Slams ‘A $2 Billion Solar Mistake—From The Media’
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Source: Climate Progress
Monday’s news that yet another solar company that received Energy Department backing is filing for bankruptcy protection at first looked like the Obama administration had funded another expensive loser.
But unlike Solyndra’s high-profile and costly flameout, this time the news came with a twist that tripped up wire services, talking heads and members of Congress.
The company, Solar Trust, never took the money….
Even The Associated Press and Reuters got it wrong.
When the media latches on to a narrative, mistakes happen. Why? Confirmation bias sets in, so reporters and editors don’t do the same amount of due diligence as they would on a story that strikes their intuition — their nose for news — as incorrect.
The media mistakenly believes unrestricted emissions of greenhouse gases are unlikely to have a catastrophic impact, so they downplay the story and play up the 1 in 20 articles that doesn’t show the situation is more dire than scientists thought.
Now, the media erroneously thinks solar power is flaming out and that government support for solar isn’t a good idea. They have wildly overhyped Solyndra, ignoring anything that would undermine the narrative, such as the December Bloomberg report that concluded: “The focus on Solyndra is not proportional to its impact.”
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/05/458723/politico-slams-2-billion-solar-mistake-from-the-media/?
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Must be an opinion piece......?....the incorrect news.......?
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