The great energy expose

The Democrats and the New York Times are making hay with a recently released Energy Department document that reveals Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham met with top executives of energy-producing companies while preparing an energy report released last spring.

In what is written as a "news" story on Page One, as distinguished from an op-ed piece on the editorial page, New York Times reporters relate that Mr. Abraham met with "energy industry executives, trade association leaders and lobbyists" but "did not meet with any representatives of environmental organizations or consumer groups." They add: "Many of the executives were leaders of corporations that were among the most generous financial supporters of President Bush's presidential campaign and the Republican Party."

Maybe, just maybe, some of the public are waking up. At least I hope that some of the media are being honest and actually publishing factual information. I hope it catches on.

Some day I'll have to share an article in the San Jose Mercury, the letter I wrote the reporter about it, his response, and my response to him. This happened about a month ago. He said that conservation and Davis initiated power plants had cause the spot market price of electricity to drop. I told him he was doing a disservice to the people of California by saying things that weren't true. He wrote me back a letter saying I was misinformed and giving me all kinds of fuzzy logic.

The point is that there are reporters who believe in educating the public, providing factual information, and there are another class of reporters who believe in writing anything, true or not, that is politically correct, biased to the views of their editors so that they can get published. I think we have too many of the latter kind of reporters.

You posted this comment about some reporters:

there are another class of reporters who believe in writing anything, true or not, that is politically correct, biased to the views of their editors so that they can get published. I think we have too many of the latter kind of reporters.

Unfortunately, from what I see and read, about 99% of so called reporters are nothing by Rat Pressitutes dry cleaning the real stories and just lying to present and protect the agendas of the left. Of course this is what their PC leftist editors and publishers want and then publish as real news or the truth according to them.

This PC arrogance will be the downfall of most newspapers in America!

,One of the fatal weaknesses of the 20th century was the vulnerability of the public to articulate and passionate "leaders" who didn't know beans about what they were talking about. We are so justifiably horrified by the history of Adolf Hitler's evil deeds that we often overlook the sheer uninformed idiocy of much that he said and did. Here was a man who never took Genetics 1, but who ran a country and murdered millions of people on the basis of his own ignorant racial theories. [Note well, that the blood libels of Jews now current among Arabs and supported by a massive propaganda campaign are indistinguishable from Hitler's Big Lie campaign against Jews. Thinking Germans knew they weren't true but found that they thought along the lines of the lies, after they had heard them enough times].
Charismatic ignoramuses left a similar trail of havoc in . . . in other countries . . . We . . . were spared the worst of these consequences, though . . . the New Deal ended up prolonging the Great Depression, rather than shortening it.
There are more qualifications required to become a taxi driver or a meter maid than to engage in any of a number of busybody occupations that are taken seriously in the media, as if they represented expertise on something. . . . Indeed, there are no requirements for any knowledge whatsoever to become an environmentalist or a consumer advocate.
Ignoring our own noisy quacks today is something that should be commended, rather than condemned.

Celebrities' opinions are taken seriously. Such people are under a great deal of pressure to have opinions to be taken seriouly. The dirty little secret is that they are under enormous pressure to have the same opinions as the rest of the celebrities do. That way, nobody shows anyone else up by proving them wrong.

Thanks for a great reply!

This part I will use from now on:

There are more qualifications required to become a taxi driver or a meter maid than to engage in any of a number of busybody occupations that are taken seriously in the media, as if they represented expertise on something. . . . Indeed, there are no requirements for any knowledge whatsoever to become an environmentalist or a consumer advocate.

This says it about most enviral Nazis!

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