GLOBAL WARMING HAS ITS OWN PRESS AGENT -- IT'S CALLED "THE PRESS"

So I’m searching through Google News trying to find a story on how Global Warming is making kids nutty with “climate change delusion,” and come across this story instead. It’s on MSNBC’s website entitled Storm Chaser Believes Global Warming Responsible for Early Activity in Tornado Alley.

The story is about, well, a storm chaser who believes that Global Warming is responsible for the early activity in Tornado Alley. “Over the past several years, I’ve seen an earlier arrival of spring, particularly in North Texas and Oklahoma,” Lisius said. ... This fits perfectly into the “Global Warming” narrative. There are plenty of "experts" to scare you into thinking that tornadoes are becoming more severe and numerous due to Global Warming. ...

But Global Warming has become a hack writer’s hook to hang a news story on. I mean, when was the last time you read anything in a newspaper about polar bears that didn’t have to do with Global Warming? ...

It turns out that Global Warming has its own, full-time, no-expense Press Agent—it’s called “The Press.” Only it didn’t happen that way. As I came to the end of the article, I found this: Lisius is founder of Tempest Tours, a company that specializes in storm chasing expeditions. ... What the hell? This isn’t a news story at all. This article on Google “News” and MSNBC “News” is just a raw, unedited press release shoved onto the Internet to give publicity to a guy and his storm chasing tour. It’s a ... free advertisement.

The lazy hack news writers at MSNBC didn’t have to lift a Cheetos-stained finger to get this Global Warming “news” out into the world. It came to them. It’s no wonder the papers are filled with stories about Global Warming—They write themselves.

His "Bottom line": If you’re a news writer, never let a story go by where you can't somehow slip in a reference to Global Warming. Tornadoes? Global Warming? Polar bears? Global Warming. They fit the narrative that the news writers believe. And they know how to get the quotes in to slant the story to produce the desired outcome.

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2 posted on 02/21/2009 6:55:39 PM PST by CedarDave (Pray that during the next four years we don't lose the America we so love.)

Sandbagged by my own laziness again. I didn’t do a search for the article before posting. I see you already have a thread. Sorry!

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3 posted on 02/21/2009 7:05:01 PM PST by CedarDave (Pray that during the next four years we don't lose the America we so love.)

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4 posted on 02/22/2009 5:07:47 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)

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