Posted on 07/17/2007 9:38:17 PM PDT by Westlander
It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of “geologists.”
Only the president at the time wasn’t Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessandmedia.org ...
Journalists? Authorities on???????
I skimmed it....yes, it is VERY interesting.....here’s a tidbit....
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It would be difficult for the media to do a worse job with climate change coverage. Perhaps the most important suggestion would be to remember the basic rules about journalism and set aside biases — a simple suggestion, but far from easy given the overwhelming extent of the problem.
Three of the guidelines from the Society of Professional Journalists are especially appropriate:
“Support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant.”
“Give voice to the voiceless; official and unofficial sources of information can be equally valid.”
“Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.”
Bull$hit.
...and on scaring the public.
Journalist are now climate specialist?
Just wait...give them another 1,900 years and they’ll start claiming people are going to magically float up in the sky...
Why not? There's no controlling legal authority over who can be an expert on manbearpig
Most Journalists know dip!
The very notion that these clots, with their generally Marxist indoctrination and their absolutely gimme J-school ''degrees'', are in any way ''qualified'' to discourse upon scientific topics, or not-quite-scientific topics such as climatology, is very nearly the largest joke I've ever heard (well, except for the 'duck walks into a bar joke...)
So they admit they’ve been stupid, drooling retards for 100 years?
“Run, Run, Run, the sky is falling”, said Chicken Little
Most likely hemorrhoids.
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