AP, Seth Borenstein, MSM Continue ClimateGate News Blackout
THE AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS BLACKOUT ON CLIMATEGATE
Where’s the AP’s Science Writer (and AGW Pimp), Seth Borenstein?
The scandal that is the hoax of man-made climate change continues.
Joining it in the scandal world: the American Mouthpiece Media’s almost total news blackout of near-daily revelations–being reported in other countries–that dismantle the elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque scheme that used to be known as “Anthropogenic Global Warming” (AGW).
Where is noted scaremonger, Seth Borenstein of the Associated Press? When the subject was the now-discredited fear that warmists pushed as science, Borenstein was cranking out an article or two on the issue every week.
In one 10-day period in late November 2009, Borenstein authored articles like, “Global warming may require higher dams, stilts”, “‘A million small changes’ to better climate” and “‘We are in more trouble than we thought’”.
You would think that a reporter that cautioned that his readers may “require stilts” because of global warming’s catastrophes would be jumping for joy at being able to inform them that things might not be so bad after all.
Seth is silent, however.
As is the rest of the American media. The blogosphere is still on the case, as is talk radio and Fox News. When the mantra was “the science is settled”, climate change was a steady news staple in Big Media. Now, that the fraud is collapsing like a house of cards, suddenly, it’s news that’s not so vital for viewers/readers to hear.
The ClimateGate news blackout is only comparable to the one imposed on the John Edwards’ scandal for 10 months. Not one word was spoken over that time about the affair, scandal or cover-up.
ClimateGate joins it as evidence that for the Mainstream Media, all news is politicized.
And if it ain’t the right politics, it ain’t news.
Dan Karipides, U.S. Media Silent as Climate Scandals Continue, agrees:
Bad science done using bad data to start with is a recipe for disaster. Or, perhaps more to the point, is a recipe for being able to manipulate public opinion. The scientific method is a way of discovering observable truths about the world around us. To use it as a propaganda machine is shameful and the mainstream media’s silence on the story is doubly so.
So does Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds. But Reynolds points out, “…The Times of London is eating their (MSM’s) lunch. And dinner, breakfast, and bedtime snack.”
ClimateGate is one reason that 1-trust in traditional media rests somewhere in the neighborhood of Nigerian email requests for your money; and 2-news customers every day demonstrate that they will no longer pay for a defective MSM news product.
All of this leads to one final question: Why does the AP’s Seth Borenstein choose now go silent on the subject of climate change–just when he has a real story to report?
UPDATE: Mark Steyn, Change of Climate comes to much the same conclusions on the reticence of the American press to report on climate change.
“The settled science” seems to now have morphed from climate change into some sort of science having to do with stealth technology of how the data was discovered and then–sadly–lost!
You have to assume that America’s dying monodailies are now actively auditioning for state ownership. How else to explain the silence of the massed ranks of salaried “environmental correspondents” on the daily revelations emerging from the fast disintegrating “scientific consensus” on “climate change”? You get livelier coverage from the Chinese press.
Steyn has a bit of fun–don’t we all?–listing what the UK dailies are writing about the settled fraud. He quotes James Delingpole, who has a particularly good quote. Which by the way, pretty much sums up the feeling in these parts.
Meanwhile, James Delingpole can do without these johnnies-come-lately:
For years I’ve been made to feel a pariah for my views on AGW… Now it’s payback time and I take small satisfaction from seeing so many rats deserting their sinking ship. I don’t want them on my side. I want to see them in hell, reliving scenes from Hieronymus Bosch …screw ‘em.
Screw ‘em.
Exactly.
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