Latest USA Today Global Warming Scare Tactic
June 1st, 2006 1:14 AM
The higher CO2 levels that inherently come with global warming are actually a good thing if you're starving in a third world country. Plants breathe CO2, and higher levels means faster plant growth and higher crop yields. But that isn't the story you want to paint if you're a big media operation like USA Today. Instead, you want to frame it like this: Study: Global warming boosts poison…
MSNBC's Unger Ludicrously Claims Al Gore a Victim of 'Swift-Boating
May 31st, 2006 3:47 AM
Citing one comment from a meteorologist quoted on the ninth page (78th paragraph) of a Washington Post Magazine story, remarks by an unnamed “pundit” and an unidentified “Fox News analyst,” as well as a gentle TV ad campaign with the hardly threatening tag line of “Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life," fill-in MSNBC host Brian Unger ludicrously devoted a segment of Tuesday's…
NY Times Publisher Sulzberger Apologizes to Grads for Failure to Enact
May 27th, 2006 9:34 PM
C-SPAN on Saturday night (May 27) aired the Sunday, May 21 commencement remarks, by New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., at the State University of New York at New Paltz where he was honored with a Doctorate of Humane Letters. As reported Monday by Clay Waters, on NewsBusters and the MRC's TimesWatch site, in picking up local Hudson Valley newspaper accounts, Sulzberger delivered a…
Olbermann, Blog Falsely Smear Matt Drudge
May 25th, 2006 2:06 PM
On May 22, 2006, Matt Drudge posted an item that said, "Burn: Gore & entourage took 5 cars to travel the 500 yards from hotel to screening of pic in Cannes ..." Keith Olbermann and lefty blog Think Progress jumped on Drudge, claiming that the story was false. Olbermann went as far as to say that Drudge is a "long-time schmuck" and was again "making stuff up" (via Expose the Left).As it turns…