THE AMERICAN MEDIA NEWS BLACKOUT ON CLIMATEGATE

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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TIME continues its grand uber-partisan mad hackery demonstrated by its own Mark Halperin in Game Change. Only this time, instead of suppressing real news ala John Edwards Scandal, the weekly newsrag continues its crusade to Dan Quayle-ize Sarah Palin.

Which is sad because the piece by Michael Scherer makes some good points. They’re just buried in the snark around a false premise that’s obligatory when someone writes a political piece for TIME.

The meme, as currently constructed is “Sarah Palin is inconsequential of and by herself. She’s merely a brainless, addled child speaking to other rubes who listen to her because their betters ignore them.”

The piece is all about how Fox News hired Palin, not possibly because of what she has to say or she connects with folks who aren’t of the puffed-up-exponentially crowd, but because she’s a Mascot.

A mascot? That mascot wouldn’t be a pig with lipstick, would it now boys?

That’s a good one! You fellows are funny!

From As Mascot and Martyr, Sarah Palin Debuts On Fox News:

To quibble with any of these utterances, in form or substance, would be to simply help fulfill her Fox News destiny. She exists to enrage and rile those paid to pay attention to this stuff, a group who a great bulk of the American people long ago began to dislike for its phony self-importance and its monopoly on their attentions.

There was the following redeemer, however:

[Before I continue, I must make a disclosure: I am not, as a member of the professional media, qualified to describe Sarah Palin's debut appearance as a Fox News analyst. As Fox pundit Monica Crowley explained on the network after the former Alaska governor left Tuesday night, Palin “was actually talking over the heads of the media to the American people.” This, explained Crowley, is Palin's great talent—a rare ability to connect directly with Americans through television. “Nixon did it,” Crowley added, driving home her point. Lacking access to Palin's most important frequencies, therefore, I must ask that you take this analysis for what it is—an incomplete rendering.]

Truer words have not been spoken at TIME since the 1950s–which is one reason the magazine’s dropped a cool million in circulation over the last 10+ years.

Give TIME credit for one thing: consistency. The mag attacks conservatives with gusto, while shielding its readers from unpleasant news about favored Democrat liberals. TIME readers were completely in the dark about John Edwards during his time as one of the 2008 Democrat front-runners for the Dem presidential nomination.

Now, it engages in the long pre-2012 attack on someone who is not one of TIME’s own. The drone will continue from TIME and its cohort in the MMM. But to many, many less people than previously.

Liberal partisan hackery just doesn’t pay as well as it used to, eh, comrades?

It’s another sign of the times.

Maybe a sign of the New York Times?

The AP is reporting that Editor & Publisher is shutting down after over a century of reporting on the print media.

FROM Editor & Publisher closing after 108 years:

NEW YORK — The Nielsen Co. is selling some of its most prominent trade journals — including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard — and shutting down Editor & Publisher, which has chronicled the newspaper business for 108 years.

In all, Nielsen is selling eight titles to e5 Global Media LLC, a new company formed by private equity firm Pluribus Capital Management, and Guggenheim Partners, a financial services company. James Finkelstein, who founded Pluribus this year with George Green and Matthew Doull, will serve as e5′s chairman.

With the White House press pool now adding reporters from blogs and websites to fill the holes left by reporters from shuttered newspapers, this is not that surprising.

OUR TAKE: It’s another nail in the Mouthpiece Media’s coffin. Fewer MM outlets means there’s less editors and publishers to subscribe to news about a fading marketplace.

It’s just another indication that when businesses don’t serve their customers–in this case, hiding and twisting the news into shapes that their readers can no longer use–the customers will go elsewhere.

In this case, the Internet that MM types decry on almost a daily basis. Sure, readers on the Internet also have to filter their news, but most blogs and websites make no bones about where their point of view is coming from.

Unlike their counterparts in (Not-so) Big Media.

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Is the name “NBC” to go the way of “Studebaker” and “Woolworths”?

It’s looking more likely after the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast.

FRom Comcast Could Drop the NBC Name:

The cable operator [Comcast] referred to the “New NBCU” in its announcement of a deal that will give Comcast control of the NBC broadcast network and its portfolio of cable channels. For now, the company “will remain NBC Universal, but ultimately Comcast could decide to change the name,” Tim Arango reported Thursday morning.

Eventually, the name NBC, short for the National Broadcasting Company, could go the way of history. Given both companies’ emphasis on cable channels, a name like Comcast Entertainment may make more sense in the long term.

The report further states that executives at Comcast talked about the “baggage” that the NBC brand carries. The report did not state anything being discussed about the “baggage” that comes with the MSNBC brand.

MSNBC is currently ranked anywhere from 2nd to 4th among news cable networks in prime time, running well behind Fox News in all of the time slots.

It’s been speculated at DBKP that Comcast could choose to run the MSNBC unit as a more centralist news organization and try to capture market share from Fox News.

For the time being, MSNBC and CNN fight over the 20% of the country that self-identifies as “liberal”, leaving the rest of cable news viewership to Fox News.

Broadcasting & Cable [Domain Déjà vu for NBCU] reported that Comcast’s registrar has put a lock on the domain names ComcastNBCU.com and NBCUComcast.com back in mid-October. ComcastEntertainment.com has also been locked up for Comcast within the last month.

B & C did have this interesting note at the end of their story, which came out on November 2:

“But cybersquatters (and, ahem, NBCU and Comcast’s legal departments) take note. NBCUniversalComcast.com and ComcastNBCUniversal.com are both available for purchase as of this writing.”

But that was 31 days ago as this is being typed.

That’s an eternity on the Internet: both domain names are now taken.

UPDATE: For a good reason why the NBC name might be considered “baggage”, here’s the NBC News take on ClimateGate

The NBC take? NBC is currently in Day 12 of not mentioning ClimateGate. Now that’s news!

Nothing’s changed and climate change is one of the biggest problems facing mankind. No wonder they’re hurting…

The Chicago con.

Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune uses a Politburo squabble in an attempt to re-write history. Its not very clever, but it is disingenuous.

FROM Bill Ayers dumps Obama:

To hear the right-wing crowd, you would think Bill Ayers and President Barack Obama were joined at the hip.

Who could forget Sarah Palin’s charge that Obama was “palin’ around with terrorists”?

Well, goodbye to all that. The 1960s Weather Underground radical-turned-University-of-Illinois professor sounds as steamed up against Obama as he used to feel about President Richard Nixon.

The reason, once again, is a presidential escalation of a faraway war.

What a tool.

When the Right disagrees about something, it’s a “civil war”.

When the Left disagrees, it’s evidence that “Obama and Bill Ayers were never, ever close; it never happened”?

This is no proof of anything other than Clarence Page’s blatant dishonesty. The writer wants us to “Look over here, Obama and Ayers disagree!” while whisking away their past?

Give me a break.

Page is too used to that small and getting smaller by the minute group of readers who will swallow this swill as gospel.

The demise of Big Media can’t get here fast enough. Page better hope that his buddy Obama will bail out the newspapers that no one reads anymore–including his own Tribune.

image: Gerry Riskin

UPDATE: Due to a comment on this post by DogStar7 Videos, who shot the Bill Ayers video in question, we’ll post the actual video referred to in this post–so readers can hear what Bill Ayers had to say himself.

MSM RULES on HOW TO COVER THE NEWS

The Los Angeles Times is suddenly concerned with sensibilities.

From Google won’t exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from its site:

A crudely altered photograph of Michelle Obama, which often comes up as the first result on a Google image search of her name, will not be removed from the company’s search process despite protests that the depiction is racist and repugnant.

“It’s offensive to many people, but that alone is not a reason to remove it from our search index,” Google Inc. spokesman Scott Rubin said Tuesday. “We have, in general, a bias toward free speech.”

We can not recall any similar worries that the LA Times expressed over the thousands of Bush=Hitler and Bush=chimp pictures that were on Google during his administration.

Here’s the MSM equation for what’s important in the media. It’s works whether talking about the NY Times or the LA version–or TIME or Newsweek or any MSM publication, for that matter. Remember it and you’ll always be in the know.

GOP president = concern for public’s right to know
Dem president = concern for the success of the process
GOP president = concern for freedom of expression
Dem president = concern for sensibilities
GOP president = dissent is good
Dem president = dissent is dangerous

There are others. This is a start. We’ll add more later.

So the New York Times won’t report the news.

What’s new?

The same paper that sat on the John Edwards scandal for nine months in 2008-09–until Edwards gave his okay for the Times to let their readers in on the news by confessing–wants to keep their readers in the dark again. This time on ClimateGate.

The latest Times’ culprit?

Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who acts like a global warming political hack.

Brent Bozell call him on it in When the Press Favors Secrecy:

The e-mails prove just how dishonest this left-wing global warming agenda truly is. And now suddenly, The New York Times has found religion and won’t publish these private e-mails. Environmental reporter Andrew Revkin, who’s more global warming lobbyist than reporter, quoted — sparsely — from the e-mails, but declared he would not post these texts on his “Dot Earth” blog on the Times website: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.”

That rule didn’t apply to things like the disclosure of the SWIFT global bank monitoring program against terrorists.

Unlike our secret terror-fighting efforts, there is no grave matter of national security to protect here. There is only a danger of shredding the undeserved reputation of some global-warming alarmists as nonpartisan, nonideological, just-the-facts scientists with no preconceived environmentalist or statist agenda.

Next time Revkin wants readers’ trust for something he writes, remember how he covered for his buddies in the Global Warming Scam community.

Revkin could’ve been a reporter. Instead, he chose to hide facts from his readers instead of report them.

To some, that would seem make him a hack.