"Trust us, we're the media"...a remarkable article about Global Warming denial and the media

[Harper_is_Bush]

Trust us, we're the media
By Mitchell Anderson
Publish Date: January 25, 2007

Global warming is an unproven theory. Trying to stop it will cost the economy dearly and accomplish nothing. It is being promoted by envi­onmentalists as a cynical ploy to raise money.

Reading statements like these, does it seem like you are looking at a Canadian daily newspaper?

It should.

Like many North American media outlets, Canadian newspapers have been supplying the public with such a steady diet of misinformation and skewed science on the critical issue of global warming that it might best be described as journalistic malpractice.

Hyperbole? Hardly.

Consider this: would it be ethical for a news editor today to publish an opinion piece by a tobacco-industry-funded “expert”, now long inactive within the scientific community, stating that there is no proven link between tobacco and cancer?
http://www.straight.com/article-67107/trust-us-were-the-media

It's a bit of a long read, but it's excellent. Very informative and heartening (or perhaps bitter-sweet). Exposes North American media for the unethical incompetance they've applied to Global Warming for over a decade.

[RestoreGore]

1. They are corporate hacks

They only speak for their benefactors and not the people. They are not here to inform but to entertain. They think that is enough, and unfortunately it has been. Hopefully with Al Gore's movie and book bringing these lies and this unethical incompetence as you aptly called it to the light of day, more people will realize just how much they have been reamed over and over again by these phonies before half of Greenland falls into the ocean.

[Vidar]

2. Life in America is one long infomercial.