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The Media and Reporting on the Environment
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 05, 2006 | David Mastio

Posted on 04/05/2006 1:28:20 AM PDT by Caipirabob

Next time you read a magazine cover story like the one Time just published ("Be Worried. Be VERY Worried. Polar Ice Caps Are Melting ... More And More Land Is Being Devastated ... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame") you should remember one little fact: U.S. media companies, including Time Warner, donate more to the environmental movement than any other industry. Companies like The New York Times, Gannett, Tribune, ABC, CBS and NBC have donated more than a half-billion worth of ad space since the 1990s to raise money for some of the nation's most extreme environmental groups. And yes, that was billion with a B.

To put that number in perspective, America's media companies donate more to environmental groups every year than the much-feared Olin Foundation's spent annually in its effort to build the institutional foundation of the conservative movement.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birdcageliner; dinosaurscomets; lsm; media; oldmedia
The best part of posting is making up the keywords...
1 posted on 04/05/2006 1:28:23 AM PDT by Caipirabob
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To: Caipirabob

"This is the Dinosaur media reporting that "It's Bush's fault! Signing off..."

2 posted on 04/05/2006 1:30:16 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Stop global warming, elect Democrats. Works every time it's tried. Funny if it weren't true.


3 posted on 04/05/2006 1:30:42 AM PDT by Tarpon
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