Scientists Speak Out Against AP’s Climate Change Fear-mongering
Scientists from all over the world are coming out strongly against an inexcusably hysterical article recently published by the planet's leading wire service. As NewsBusters reported Saturday, the Associated Press published an unbelievably disgraceful article about global warming induced sea level rises supposedly destined to wipe out large amounts of American coastal communities in the next 100…
Unbelievably Disgraceful Global Warming Hysteria by the AP
The political battle over climate change has clearly taken a dramatic turn for the worse this month, for it now seems media are actually competing to see which outlet can present the most hysterical report concerning imminent planetary doom at the hands of manmade global warming.*****Critical updates at end of post. After ABC News published a disgraceful photo essay featuring computer generated…
Time’s Joe Klein: ‘Why Drudge Is a Disgrace
Time's Joe Klein is unhappy with Matt Drudge, and thinks he's a disgrace. Why, you ask? Because Drudge posted a headline at his website Tuesday which Klein thinks is out of context with the linked Associated Press article.Imagine that. Here's the beef Klein posted at Time's Swampland blog Tuesday (emphasis added):
Global Warming Lawsuit Against Car Companies Dismissed
A landmark decision concerning car companies and global warming was handed down by a federal judge in California on Monday. Yet, most people are likely not going to hear about it, because the ruling goes counter to the media's agenda. As reported by the Associated Press (emphasis added throughout): "District Judge Martin Jenkins in San Francisco handed California Attorney General Jerry Brown's…
After Gore Wins Emmy Media Falsely Claim He Also Won Oscar
See if you can spot the error in the following opening paragraph from the Associated Press concerning the exploits of soon-to-be-Nobel Prize laureate Al Gore: So he wasn't elected president. Big deal. How many other presidential candidates have an Emmy and an Oscar to brag about? Or this one from Reuters:
Hillary's Orwellian Health Care: Mandating Coverage = Choice
"War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength" -- Slogan of the ruling party in George Orwell's "1984"With the health care proposal she is about to introduce, Hillary Clinton adds another spooky non sequitur to the list: Compulsory Coverage is Choice. Will the MSM take notice?
USA Today: 'Detainees Tell of Abuses' -- But Story Shows Little of it
This USA Today story about an AP report should be called headline abuse instead of "detainee abuse" because if one were to just read the headline and move on, you'd get the wrong impression about what the story really reveals. You'd obviously read USA Today's headline, "Guantanamo detainees tell of abuses," and assume the story is another abu Ghraib styled yarn about how evil US soldiers are…
Great News From the UN Media Can’t Possibly Report
Whenever the United Nations makes any dire proclamation about the future of the planet, whether dealing with global warming, the environment, war, or poverty, you can be sure media will give it great attention. Yet, when the World Federation of UN Associations released its extraordinarily optimistic "State of the Future" report Monday, with positive news about literacy, mortality, economic…