Newsweek Burns Truth In Global Warming Story
By Roger Aronoff
August 13, 2007
Page 5 of 6
The Censors
Bush's capitulation to the alarmists is a victory for media bias.
If there is any rigid thought control in this debate over global warming, it is being exercised by those passionately committed to the alarmist theory who refuse to tolerate dissent.
Michael Griffin, the head of NASA, got a taste of it when he dared to suggest (web site) that global warming, natural or not, wasn't anything to worry or do anything about. "I have no doubt that global--that a trend of global warming exists," he said in a taped interview that aired on National Public Radio. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that is a problem we must wrestle with."
He continued: "I guess I would ask which human beings, where and when, are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."
A subsequent controversy over his remarks, caused by the proponents of the man-made global warming theory, prompted him to say that he should have stayed out of the debate.
But has NASA itself been pressured to go along with the alarmists?
The Newsbusters website has run a fascinating story (web site) that NASA has now quietly acknowledged that it was wrong in saying that nine of the hottest 10 years in history have occurred since 1995, and that now it appears to be only three of the top 10 since 1998.
Hence, a lot of hot air is going out of the global warming argument.
Newsweek, of course, cannot be expected to report any of this. It would cast doubt on the theory it is falsely promoting as fact.
Similarly, NBC and its affiliated networks turned over close to 75 hours of air time to Al Gore's Live Earth concerts, constituting a massive endorsement of one side in this debate.
Where's the Fairness Doctrine when we need it?
We should know by now that the concept of "fairness" is only supposed to apply to those who disagree with liberals. We are supposed to be "fair" to them by presenting their view - and only their view - as the truth.
In truth, they are the mud-slingers with a political agenda that threatens the American way of life. This is the fact that they are so desperate to conceal.
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Roger Aronoff is a media analyst with Accuracy in Media. He is the writer/director of Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope, and can be contacted at roger.aronoff@aim.org.
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