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Fox News CEO Warms to Climate Change After Heat From Left
CNS News.com ^ | 11/9/2005 | Randy Hall and Marc Morano

Posted on 11/10/2005 11:17:09 AM PST by Dad was my hero

By Randy Hall and Marc Morano CNSNews.com Staff November 09, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - A Fox News Channel documentary on "global warming," set to air Sunday night, provides only the liberal take on the controversial issue and was approved after environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly "dragged" Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to a lecture by former Vice President Al Gore, "kicking and screaming."

Clay Rawson, the Fox News Channel producer of the hour-long special titled "The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming," told Cybercast News Service Wednesday that the project "was a little bit different for us.

"Often on Fox News Channel, we present both sides, according to our 'fair and balanced' motto, but this is the global warming story," Rawson said. "We do make it clear that this is one side of the issue through inclusion of a disclaimer," he added. The documentary is said to ignore scientific skeptics who believe that human activity is not responsible for catastrophic climate change.

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KEYWORDS: fairandbalanced; fauxnews; foxnews; globalwarming
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To: Dad was my hero

Obvoiusly Ailes read 'State of Fear" by Michael Chricton
He's just trying to increase his ad revenues
running lackey capitalist pig dog that he is.


61 posted on 11/10/2005 12:59:50 PM PST by Waverunner
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To: Dad was my hero
Griscom Little also wrote that "Ailes was charmed by what he calls Laurie's 'impressive passion and dedication'" and that Ailes "considers her one of the country's 'leading authorities' on global warming."

Thanks for the laugh, Mr. Ailes! Non-scientist Laurie David is just as much of a "leading authority" on global warming as non-scientists RFKjr and AlGore are. Apparently "passion and dedication" are an acceptable substitute for the actual possession of facts.

62 posted on 11/10/2005 1:05:15 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Have you visited http://c-pol.blogspot.com?)
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To: Dad was my hero

My wife is an environmental scientist (as well as a staunch Republican - I'm the Conservative). She is privy to much documentation regarding the issue. She is convinced that the data are correct, the earth is warming. She is not convinced though that the cause is man-made as opposed to naturally cyclical, neither are her colleagues.


63 posted on 11/10/2005 1:08:41 PM PST by wtc911 (see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
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To: Graycliff

whats the highest.

According to the Bible: Noah's flood


64 posted on 11/10/2005 1:31:05 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: rambo316

environmentally concious in her daily living

We all should be. If you aren't....you suck!


65 posted on 11/10/2005 1:32:51 PM PST by wolfcreek
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To: wtc911

"She is not convinced though that the cause is man-made as opposed to naturally cyclical, neither are her colleagues."


I believe that is Michael Crichton's position, and if RFK, Jr. and Laurie David can be called as lay "experts" on the issue, then so can Mr. Crichton.


66 posted on 11/10/2005 2:10:24 PM PST by Cecily
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To: Dad was my hero

Maybe Rupert Murdock has warmed up to the global worming (misspelled on purpose, thank you) night crawlers.


67 posted on 11/10/2005 2:23:15 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (America's Achilles Heel is the liberal democrats and the dung heels who mislead them.)
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To: Dad was my hero; PresidentBush

Sign the Global worming accord-save Holland.


68 posted on 11/10/2005 2:33:44 PM PST by F.J. Mitchell (Global worming could have saved New Orleans if enacted before the worms ate the levees.)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; Timesink; VPMWife78; Gracey; Alamo-Girl; RottiBiz; FoxGirl; Mr. Bob; xflisa; ...
FoxFan ping!

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.

69 posted on 11/10/2005 5:20:40 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: massgopguy

I have never heard the term SCAG.


70 posted on 11/10/2005 5:25:16 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (I shot an error into the air. It's still going everywhere. R. A. HEINLEIN)
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To: Dad was my hero

Just additional reasons to avoid tuning into FoxNews anymore. It's sad what's happened there. Brit's show is it for us.


71 posted on 11/10/2005 5:29:33 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Take the high road. You'll never have to meet a Democrat.)
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To: Dad was my hero
The sun and the polar caps control the temperature of the Earth. The warming effect of sunlight on surrounding air is greater when the sunlight is reflecting off of dry ground, as opposed to water.

Hence, when the polar caps melt more, because of an increase in temperature, the resulting increase in water level covers more dry ground. That, in turn, exposes less dry ground to the sun's rays, which produces a cooling cycle.

It is a cycle that has been going on ever since there has been dry land, polar caps, and oceans.

72 posted on 11/10/2005 5:40:18 PM PST by fightu4it (conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
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To: Dad was my hero
Clearly, there are those watching the same network as you that have different views as to whether they are "right, left or middle of the road."

Then they are mistaken.

Personally, having a long enough history as a liberal and being able to sniff out bias in either direction, I have felt they were closer to center (mostly right center) than any other network I've seen.

The other networks are liberal. But that's got nothing to do with it. The editorial shows on Fox are all geared to a right wing audience and--SHAZAM!--that's their audience. Their nightly news guy, Brit Hume, is a right winger. Ailes is a right winger. It's a right wing network. There's nothing wrong with it. The market clearly wanted one. But it's pretty jokey to think that a show on global warming somehow means they've become CNN.

73 posted on 11/10/2005 5:50:32 PM PST by Huck (:-))
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To: blues_guitarist

Yeah, I think it started about the same time that Rupert Murdoch got into bed with Hill and Bill several months back.


74 posted on 11/10/2005 7:48:06 PM PST by Surtur (Free Trade is NOT Fair Trade unless both economies are equivalent.)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


75 posted on 11/10/2005 8:50:26 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: adorno
I say we boycott FOX during that program.

Sounds fine to me.

76 posted on 11/12/2005 1:04:36 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! --kellynla)
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To: Waverunner

I would say he needs to read it. I'd recommend it to anyone in this thread, as well. It pretty much drives a stake through the heart of the environmentalist whacko movement.


77 posted on 11/12/2005 1:09:33 AM PST by Rastus
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To: prairiebreeze
Just additional reasons to avoid tuning into FoxNews anymore. It's sad what's happened there. Brit's show is it for us.

I like Cavuto's show. He doesn't sound liberal to me.

78 posted on 11/12/2005 1:22:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! --kellynla)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Cavuto, Gibson are OK. I just never watch during that time of day.


79 posted on 11/12/2005 4:40:23 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Take the high road. You'll never have to meet a Democrat.)
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To: All

As a News Corp. employee tasked with working on one of the many subsequent “follow-up” reports to this, I can’t tell you how utterly sickened I am by this overt politicization of our news product.

None other than Rupert Murdoch himself - at a recent New York meeting of News Corp. executives and political bigwigs from around the world - announced that every arm of News Corp. - including its broadcast division - will be spearheading a media blitz called “Cool Change”, wherein anyone within earshot of a News Corp. publication, cable, web or broadcast outlet, will be presented with stories aimed at “inspiring people to change their behavior” and “reduce their carbon footprint”. (Look for the Fox “E-Team” promos to start popping up all over the country).

Murdoch also announced that he intends to see News Corporation become “carbon neutral” by the year 2010! (Unless he plans to fire every employee and stop breathing himself, I honestly don’t see how this will happen).

As someone responsible for putting one of these follow-up stories on the air, I was told in no uncertain terms that the words “global warming” would not be used in the piece; that these pieces were to refrain from the political hot potato that surrounds such buzz words. Well, instead of using the words “global warming”, we’re going with the softer, slightly less political phrase “climate change.”

A rose by any other name.

When I pressed some colleagues about NASA’s evidence of global warm...er “climate change” on Mars, Neptune, Triton, and Jupiter, citing how there is no human activity on those planets that could be responsible for global warm...er “climate change” there, the standard response varied from non-sequitors like “it’s a controversial topic” to “so you’re saying it’s OK to keep polluting here?!?!?”

As a Fox employee, let me just state how heart-sick and disappointed I am that News Corporation is now going to be engaging in an all-out media blitz to help perpetuate one of the most heinous hoaxes ever foisted on modern man: that we humans are causing our earth to get warmer.

It appalls me to think that we may very well be “inspired” to put our economy in the tank to “fix” a problem that we not only didn’t create, but that in truth simply doesn’t exist.

It appalls me even further to think that I have a hand in this, yet am unable to do anything about it short of throwing my job away. Were I younger without so much to lose, I would do this and have - in fact - done this in the past: walking away from jobs on principle. As a father of two with one of them about to enter college, having principles costs a lot more these days.

I only hope that truth will eventually win out in this, despite my job-related efforts to push this particular piece of propaganda and rubbish.


80 posted on 07/29/2007 12:13:16 AM PDT by Stingray ("Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.")
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