[PapaBear3625]

Hat tip to WattsUpWithThat, who's been on the front lines (and often behind enemy lines) on the global warming hoax for years.

The media (at least in the UK) are finally starting to pay attention that the hoax is now unsustainable, and the credit goes to the hundreds of online guerrilla reporters.

The Spectator article goes into how mainstream journalists have been co-opted by the insiders, who they rely upon to be sources, and who will cut them off if they sense any slackening in journalistic butt kissing. The same phenomenon can be seen between reporters and some politicians, who have the practice of cutting off access to reporters and news organizations that are not butt kissers (eg, Fox News)

[Still Thinking]

‘Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,’ one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. ‘I sense that you are about to experience the “Big Cutoff” from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.’

That's a pretty gutsy approach for a hack scientist. You piss off the guy just when you're also forcing the guy to scramble for new sources, many of which might actually tell him the truth.

[PapaBear3625]

ping

Big Spectator UK article on how the Internet community, through its independence from the "insiders", exposed the global warming hoax.

[bray]

FR has been a leader in destroying this cult.

Pray for America’s Freedom

[jnsun]

If the Hoax can be so ubiquitous and so thoroughly saturate the Media, big business, the politicians, the academic community, college atudents, etc. then what other agenda's are likewise perpetrated?

Like AIG and Goldman Sachs bailouts.

Like Media integrity.

Like Democrat's concern for the common man.

etc. etc.

[gleeaikin]

GW ping

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Since journalists have very little general knowledge of the world; their education consisting of being competent sentence writers (and not too great at that!), their reports on a subject are ALWAYS corrupted. They don't know sh!t from shinola, so how can they be expected to know when someone is feeding them pure BS?

The internet however, is filled with millions of well-educated individuals, many of whom are experts in their fields. When they read a news report on a internet site, they will oftentimes comment on the article; frequently enriching its worth, and giving other readers better understanding.

(Of course, the internet also has folks like myself!)

[barbarianbabs]

soylent green is people

[gitmo]

Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.

Just like Rathergate.