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CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC Ignored Reporting On “CLIMATE GATE” November 26, 2009

Posted by seeineye in : Politics , trackback

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The Obama administration has another reason to hate Fox: it appears to be the only national television news outlet in America interested in the growing Climate Gate scandal.

Despite last Friday morning’s bombshell that hacked e-mail messages from a British university suggested a conspiracy by some of the world’s leading global warming alarmists — many with direct ties to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — to manipulate temperature data, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and NBC through Monday evening have completely ignored the subject.

LexisNexis searches indicate that NPR appears to also be part of this news boycott.

By contrast, here are some of the stories news organizations apparently favored by the Obama adminstration have covered since Climate Gate broke:

It’s not that these aren’t valid news stories, but should they ALL be of greater importance than a scandal involving scientists from around the world including some employed by NASA and American colleges?

Also consider that the news divisions of ABC, CBS, and NBC broadcast many hours during the day besides their evening programs, and LexisNexis identified no ClimateGate reports in those either (through Monday).

As for CNN, it has been broadcasting for almost 100 straight hours since this story broke, and it appears the so-called “Most Respected Name In News” has yet to devote one second to this scandal.

By contrast, Fox News did at least four reports on this subject on Monday alone. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also done multiple stories on this matter, as has BBC.com.

Yet, despite the seriousness of this issue, as well as a prominent Senator calling for hearings to investigate it, America’s television news organizations appear to be actively boycotting this growing controversy.

Is this a replay of how they ignored September’s ACORN scandal for many days until they were basically forced to cover what had gone viral across the Internet, talk radio, and Fox News?

What is it going to take for these so-called news outlets to begin sharing this subject with their viewers?

On a humorous related note, ABC might not be interested in ClimateGate, but it still is devoted to spreading climate fear.

On Tuesday, ABCNews.com’s top story was, “Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame”

There’s even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries.

Sea level rise, ocean acidification and the rapid melting of massive ice sheets are among the significantly increased effects of human-induced global  warming assessed in the survey, which also examines the emissions of heat-trapping gases that are causing the climate change.

“Many indicators are currently tracking near or above the worst-case projections” made three years ago by the world’s scientists, the new Copenhagen Diagnosis said.

Nor has man-made global warming slowed or paused, as some headlines have recently suggested, according to the report, which you can see here.

Well, at least ABC is consistent.

Readers are advised that of the cable news networks, only CNN produces transcriptions of all its broadcasts. With this in mind, it is possible that MSNBC has reported on Climate Gate during programs not transcribed. It is also possible that Fox News has reported on Climate Gate more frequently than addressed.

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1. JOHN - November 30, 2009

I HOPE FOX CONTINUES TO GIVE US THE INFORMATION THAT THE OTHER NEWS OUTLETS REFUSE TO DO……..THEY (THE MAINE STREET MEDIA) REALLY DOES HAVE AN AGENDA…..AND THEY DO NOT WANT FACTS TO STAND IN THE WAY…THIS INFORMATION NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED AND THIS WHOLE (CAP AND TRADE TAX) NEEDS TO BE STOPED IN IT’S TRACKS AND THE WRONG DOERS NEED TO BE PROSECUTED….

2. JP_Fife - November 30, 2009

Can you point to the BBC stories? The news here in the UK is that the mainstream media is ignoring it too, especially the BBC.

3. Willis - December 3, 2009

I keep hearing all this talk about “trick” and “Hide the decline” and I find it embarrassing that FOX news reporters have missed the most important detail. What impact did this trick of hiding the decline really have? The answer is…no impact on the scientific community what so ever. It took me all of 15 whole minutes of using Google to uncover this so called damning email. It has been widely established that the email is in reference to tree ring data from 1960 in high altitudes in North America doesn’t match actual recorded temps. The only problem is that if you take the 15 minutes to find out where this “manipulated” data was used you’ll find out that it was used in just one Nature article. The biggest problem is that in the third paragraph of the article it says and I quote…

“…note that the tree-ring density records become de-coupled from temperature after 1950, possibly due to some large-scale human influence that caused wood densities to decline. Thus, the reconstructed temperature record after 1960 is considered unreliable.”

Now, tell me if I’m stupid and can’t read this right but it sound like they said not to use the data. My question is what impact does manipulated data have on the science community when it is instructed not to use said data because it is unreliable? I don’t know how you hide something in plain sight. Stupid! All of you and FOX Noise are stupid.