Environment
Shock: 'Less Regulation' Praised by CBS
March 8th, 2007 3:58 PM
"Dozens of American companies have come here to London and the alternate investment market where less regulation means raising capital is cheaper and easier," declared reporter Sheila MacVicar.The atypical remark was made in a segment of "Global Warming, Cool Solutions" during the March 7 CBS "Evening News."MacVicar's words are less surprising when you know that the companies in the CBS story are…
British Documentary: Global Warming 'Biggest Scam of Modern Times
March 7th, 2007 12:27 AM
A British television station is set to do something that no American network (including Fox News) has ever done--air a lengthy documentary arguing that global warming is not caused by humans.The Washington Times has the story:With a packet of claims that are almost certain to defy conventional
wisdom, a television documentary to be aired in Britain this week
condemns man-made global warming as a…
Post's Singletary: Anti-Debt Expert 'Elevates Consciousness' Like Gore
March 4th, 2007 7:00 PM
Plugging her monthly "Color of Money Book Club" entry today, Washington Post finance columnist Michelle Singletary made a gratuitious reference to Al Gore, comparing consumer debt to global warming:James D. Scurlock, author and director of "Maxed Out," hopes to do with the overselling of credit what former vice president Al Gore has done for global warming -- elevate people's consciousness about…
Al Gore's 'Scientific' Media Study Isn't Scientific, And 'Dissent' Aut
March 2nd, 2007 10:23 PM
In an address in Oklahoma Thursday, Al "Balance Is Bias" Gore repeated his reference made at a "media ethics" seminar in Tennessee, that "a survey of 636 articles in the 'popular press' showed that 53 percent of the stories contended that it was still unproved." But Al Gore isn't really relying on a scientific study of media coverage. This matches an article by Jules and Maxwell Boykoff titled "…
