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‘Hardball’ Guest: Climate Change Is Our Top National Security Threat
March 8th, 2017 4:55 PM
Late on Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s Hardball, panelist and Brookings Institution fellow Susan Hennessey offered a jaw-dropping assessment that “the single biggest national security threat is climate change” as it’s been the reason behind many of the recent global tensions.
Photo-Challenged Reuters Won't Explain Cause of Record Antarctic Temp
March 7th, 2017 10:21 PM
On March 1, Reuters used a possibly Photoshopped photo from 2010 from the other side of the continent as it published a genuinely newsworthy story about a continental record-high temperature seen at an Antarctic base on the northern tip of that continent. The wire service's use of that not-credible or relevant photo, and the content of the posted article, attempted to tie this news to so-called…
Arts No Refuge from Politics in NYT: Ruffalo's Rants, Stalin Parallels
March 5th, 2017 5:28 PM
The arts and literature pages offer no respite from the New York Times political thrust. Lisa Birnbach hung out with actor Mark Ruffalo, perhaps best known for his role as The Hulk in the series of Avengers superhero movies, for her front-page Arts story, “The Actor’s Activist, Onstage.” Ruffalo is participating in a politicized revival of Arthur Miller’s obscure anti-capitalism play “The Price…
Nets Downplay Protester Wrongs As Authorities Evacuate Dakota Camp
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March 1st, 2017 5:29 PM
Just as they didn’t seem to mind Dakota Access Pipeline protesters’ arson, rioting and violence, the network news media failed to condemn the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed “water protectors” leaving behind mountains of trash now threatening to pollute the Missouri River. The last people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline were evicted after North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum ordered everyone to…
Light Media Coverage As DAPL Holdouts Torch Their Encampment
February 23rd, 2017 5:57 PM
Thursday afternoon, Morton County, North Dakota officials announced, roughly 24 hours after yesterday's 2. p.m. Central Time deadline, that "the main Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp is now officially closed." Outside of the major broacast networks, press coverage of the camp's imminent and now final closure has been and I suspect will continue to be light, as the holdouts' conduct has been…
Less Than One-Third of Oroville Dam Stories Mention 2005 Warnings
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February 22nd, 2017 4:51 PM
Authorities ordered the temporary evacuation of almost 200,000 people living near the Oroville Dam in California after spillway damage and erosion caused fear of death and devastation.
However, as The Mercury News reported Feb. 12, this spillway erosion might never have happened if federal and state officials heeded 2005 warnings and reinforced the emergency spillway with concrete.
Hardly News: Protesters Remain at DAPL, Not Involved in the Cleanup
February 21st, 2017 10:20 PM
A 2:00 p.m. Wednesday deadline to leave the area looms for hundreds of bitter-ender protesters at the Dakota Access Pipeline site following Donald Trump's January 24 executive order advancing its approval. Based on previous reporting I've seen, the presence of "hundreds" is a revelation. What's more, despite the oncoming environmental disaster caused by their trash, filth and abandoned items, up…
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Univision Uses Flimsy Premise To Push Climate Agenda
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February 21st, 2017 8:39 AM
Univision's news division is quick to remind us, as we recently saw, that it has a political agenda that extends far beyond immigration.
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GMOs Bashed on 'Family Guy:' 'Monsanto Equals Murder!'
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February 20th, 2017 11:47 AM
FOX's Family Guy takes a dramatic stance on GMOs debate on Sunday’s episode, “The Finer Strings.” Meg is in a school talent show and her group decides to write a rap to show their disdain for the company Monsanto and their genetically modified food products.
Google Highlights Obscure Site's Claim DAPL Protesters Being 'Framed'
February 11th, 2017 4:17 PM
This post was going to be about the establishment press's handling of the story of the mountainous and environmentally dangerous accumulation of trash left behind by Dakota Access Pipeline protesters. When the spring thaw arrives, that waste threatens to seriously pollute the Cannonball River — yes, the very river protesters are claiming they wish to protect from pipeline spills. What's…
Baby Talk on Climate Change Hits NYT: 'The Planet Will Like That’
February 10th, 2017 5:23 PM
Hitting a journalistic nadir, the New York Times ran a deeply silly environmental piece by Tatiana Schlossberg (aka Caroline Kennedy’s daughter), “Trump Has Choices to Make on Climate Policy – What Would You Do?” written in the condescending style of a choose-your-own-adventure story at a 6th-grade reading level.
Social Justice Warriors Outraged Over Super Bowl Petroleum Ad
February 8th, 2017 9:55 PM
If you were like one of the many viewers watching the Super Bowl LI, you may have seen a commercial from the American Petroleum Institute (API) with the catchy opening line, “This ain’t your daddy’s oil.” It was actually a play on General Motors’ 1988 commercial pitch, “this is not your father’s Oldsmobile,” in an effort to attract a younger generation.
Nets Ignore NOAA Whistleblower's Claims Against Pausebuster Study
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February 7th, 2017 1:25 PM
A federal agency discredited a common argument of climate skeptics in 2015, but now a whistleblower has accused the agency of misleading the public and playing politics. Not that anyone watching the network news would know it.
For several years, climate skeptics argued there had been a “pause” or hiatus in global warming beginning in 1998. Then, in June 2015, a paper from the National Oceanic…
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Today Show Panel Applauds Super Bowl Ads Pushing Liberal Agenda
February 6th, 2017 12:12 PM
On Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and substitute co-host Maria Shriver led a panel discussion reviewing some of Sunday night’s Super Bowl commercials and gushed over the “social awareness” of ads that pushed liberal agenda items like environmental activism, equal pay, and illegal immigration.
