Posted on 05/09/2007 3:29:10 AM PDT by Mr170IQ
nice collection. tnx.
Thank you for the link update. It’s interesting that it has been deleted on Youtube but remained on Google which owns Youtube.
He spends his whole column citing political documents like the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — which is known to have doctored its reports to conform with ideology, deliberately ignoring the statements of its own scientists that weren’t in line with the desire warnings
Shades of the Lancet report on civilian deaths in Iraq.
Thanks for the ping!
"We are your experts." Daniel Schorr
(Personal note - I had a retired Professor of Journalism scoff at my use of the Latin word "vice" yesterday until an acting Professor of Classics told him "you're full of crap." End of controversy. Hmm. Is "crap" Greek or Latin?)
As Bernard Goldberg pointed out, it isn't anything so sophisticated as a conspiracy in the media, it's simply an institutional conviction that since its members have the ability to shape public perception, they have an obligation to do so. That has the major difficulty when lay persons are attempting not only to make sense of a field this complicated but compress it into easily digestible morsels for a public less "informed" than themselves. Either one would be a daunting task; together only a complete ego monster with no intellectual humility would imagine him or herself capable of filling both roles.
That does not excuse the evangelical fervor with which the media have embraced this particular topic. That stems from an uncritical institutional acceptance of the guilt that Western society is supposed to acknowledge as a consequence of success. It is not, after all, those most guilty of despoiling the planet who are blamed in the media but those who have the most wealth to show for it. One of the biggest environmental disasters of all time lays around the Aral Sea in the ex-Soviet Union, and yet the press goes to Snail Darters and Spotted Owls. There is obviously another agenda at work here, and that is the media's self-proclaimed role of shaking an admonitory finger at Western complacency.
One expects that sort of behavior from self-absorbed and ignorant children on college campuses, but one also hopes that they grow up when they embark upon journalistic careers. Some do. The rest are promoted.
That makes an excellent tagline.
Bernard Goldberg should be his Press Secretary
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