To the Networks, Tiger Woods Gossip 15 Times More Newsworthy Than ClimateGate

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If ABC, NBC and CBS's judgment is correct, Tiger Woods's infidelity is more important than a climate change scandal involving high profile scientists, potentially ‘manipulated' data, and censorship of skeptics among the scientific community.

How much more important? Over 15 times. Despite the impending Copenhagen climate conference, the networks ignored the ClimateGate scandal for 13 straight days on morning and evening news programs. Finally, they got around to mentioning it in four stories during the weekend of Dec. 4 - Dec. 6 as reported on Newsbusters

Even in those climate stories reporters made sure to inform the public that, despite the Climategate revelations, "the science is solid" and "the evidence is overwhelming that man is behind climate change." On ABC, Clayton Sandell mentioned the e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia Dec. 6, but without including any of the disturbing quotes about using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in temperature, or bullying scientific publications to keep skeptics' work from being peer reviewed.

During the same time frame, from Nov. 20 to Dec. 6 the networks aired 62 stories about professional golfer Wood's car accident, rumors of an affair and then his apology during their morning and evening newscasts.

In Copenhagen, world leaders will be crafting an agreement that will potentially transfer billions of dollars from the industrialized world and fundamentally change the U.S. economy. Suddenly we learn that much of the science on which they base their decisions may be tainted or false. But those respected broadcast news organizations couldn't squeeze more than four weekend mentions into their all-Tiger, all-the-time coverage.

—Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor for the Business & Media Institute.

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That's because Tiger-gate is

That's because Tiger-gate is appealing to everyone.  Climate-gate interests only those who care about global warming.

On the flip side...

Based on the numbers involved, it seems climategate would be a much bigger media story. 

Jones, et al(Gore?) are screwing billions of people.  Tiger only screwed around ten.

 

I couldn't care much less

I couldn't care much less about either story.  I just want clean air to breathe. 

Everyone wants that...but

Everyone wants that...but its not about clean air or water, that issue is too local....the left thinks global control, hence climate change.

Isn't it funny how divided

Isn't it funny how divided it all is?  The right think they're so much smarter than every lefty for not believing in global warming, while the left takes the same position for their support of climate change.  Everyone's a science expert I guess.

what?? The right is

what??

The right is smarter because they don't believe Science runs by majority vote ( concensus ) and left are a bunch of kool aid drinkers who believe that population is out of control ( proven false ) that we had global cooling ( proven false ) and when they realized they could make money if they demonized carbon...global warming ( proven false )

So precisely what you're

So precisely what you're saying is that the right as a whole is much smarter than the left, because the right doesn't believe in global warming as the left does?

Ted

More and more these days you seem to be getting it.

Very encouraging.

A smart person should join the smart side. Our door is completely open, be assured.

 

You guys really don't want

You guys really don't want me.  I'm part of the Hollywood liberal elite, remember, and I don't think that can ever be forgiven.  That being said, please don't mistake me as a supporter of Roman Polanski.  Chinatown will always be a favorite of mine, but the guy belongs in prison.

Ted

Well, Chinatown's no favorite of mine.

What, slap a band-aid onto a guy's nose and dress everyone up 30's-style, and you've got a great movie?

:p 

It's one of the best written

It's one of the best written screenplays of the century!  

Ted

Oh, screenplay, well, maybe. The greatness of a movie entails a lot more, but that's always a start.

Speaking of Faye Dunaway and 70's flicks, do you know Three Days of the Condor?

 

It's been a long time, but

It's been a long time, but yes.  Sydney Pollack directed, Robert Redford, Max von Sydow...

Ted

Yes! And my dad, who plays one of the CIA agents. :)

And yeah, it's a 70's-liberal-slanted, NYTimes-worshipping, the-people-vs-big-bad-secret-ops movie, but still a good one. 

 

Great connection!  I don't

Great connection!  I don't suppose you father's last name is Shy so I can Netflix it and figure out which character he is?  Must have been a great experience working with Pollack...and that cast too.

Ted

He's in 5 or 6 scenes, but all rather brief, with a few lines total. Mostly all the scenes in the WTC (spooky, I know) and other CIA offices/war room-ish places, and one in an interview with a police officer after they kill Redford's old CIA pal.

Never got to ask him his experience, but I don't think he worked with Redford as he's not in any scenes with him. 

 

MR. SHY'S POP !!!!

My late father, the actor.

@ 1:02 -- forgot about this on YT, which I found a while back. :)

 

That's fantastic.  I see

That's fantastic.  I see this stuff being made every day and it still impresses me.  Just added it to my Netflix queue too.  It's time for another viewing of the pre-raisin-Redford classic!

Ted

"pre-raisin-Redford" 

 

Ha!

 

~Stop it

You'll scare him off.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

Well hello!  I see you're

Well hello!  I see you're back in action!

~Thank Costco

Great price on an HP laptop. Did you hear the schiiiiiing when I drew it out of the scabbard?  ;-)

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

Hi, Chose~

Thanks for your posts today on the other thread. I, for one, appreciated them!

Well, I'm off (to see the wizard?)...naw, to go Christmas shopping. Have a good rest of the day~~

"We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are."~Anais Nin, American writer 

~Well, I never could resist bear-baiting..

;-)

Good luck with the shopping! I'm doing most of mine online, but we'll be taking our oldest to the mall to sit on Santa's lap for the first time this weekend. She saw him there right before Thanksgiving, and she's been thinking about it ever since. I predict a sudden attack of overwhelming shyness at the last moment. 

What is this thread about, again? Oh yeah, uh, I'm glad Tiger's dad didn't live to see this.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

It was more like the sound a

It was more like the sound a light saber makes when ignited.

But my real question is how's the new Windows?   

~Alas, I don't know

I think the reason I got such a good deal on a 17 inch screen, dual core Intel processor, built-in WLAN, lots of other technical crap I'll never use, shiny black HP laptop is that it came with Vista.

I have my cake, but I can't eat it, so to speak. C'est la vie.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

Just pirate it!   Well

Just pirate it!  

Well congratulations on the new computer.  It's been a while since I've used a Windows OS, but a new computer is always fun.

And to be topically relevant, how many women is Tiger-gate up to?  My office has the count at 6. 

~7, me hearty!

According to Drudge. 

Sad. Especially for his kids.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

Hey Chose!!! Glad you're back!

Hey on which thread are you giving the bear the slapdown?  Would like to read it.

Merry Christmas!

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the Plain Meaning of Words!" ~Sam Adams

~Hey girl!

Merry Christmas to you!

This is where it starts.

In order to be pro-choice, one must first be born. Ah, the irony.

 

"libs"

Almost every NB post exposes modern "liberal" ( progressive,socialist,communist,relativist, fascist) tactics. Here is another example. They simply ignore anything which doesn't fit their agenda. These are closed-minded ideologues who haunt the White House, the halls of Congress, classrooms across America, and the leftist media who won't serve honestly those whom they are supposed to serve. They are immature, selfish, ignorant, illogical liars who won't face (or tell) the truth. Dishonest brokers all; they are the enemy within. Believe them, trust them at great risk to yourself and the ones you love. Sad.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

This is amazing...

Tiger is not known to be a Republican or a Bible thumper. Its sort of like throwing one of their own under the bus so they don't have to write/talk about their pet cause except to say not to pay attention to the man behind the curtain. (You just don't understand scientific talk, doncha kno?)

"Amazing"!

Red:

You've hit the nail on the head, Red.---Even "liberals" can't trust other "liberals". So much for "honor among thieves". Yes, it is truly "amazing".

As I say...

 

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

Wooods has been very busy

I suspect he has been playing 18 holes indoors.

Where is the outrage on golfers?  The golf courses are tremendous environmental disasters in the eyes of the greenie weenies.

Groupies!

There's so many of these women now that have claimed 'affairs' that we should drop the 'girlfriend' nonsense. These women are sports-groupies, a well-known phenomenon.

Excellent point---

slick, overlooked by too many of us.

Tiger had it all, and as I see no reason not to, hope he makes the necessary amends, and gets most of it back.

MD

The Fiction Of Climate Science

The Fiction Of Climate Science h/t Drudge
Gary Sutton, 12.04.09, 10:00 AM ET

...good article, here are some highlights:

 

  • Many of you are too young to remember, but in 1975 our government pushed "the coming ice age."
  • Random House dutifully printed "THE WEATHER CONSPIRACY … coming of the New Ice Age." This may be the only book ever written by 18 authors. All 18 lived just a short sled ride from Washington, D.C. Newsweek fell in line and did a cover issue warning us of global cooling on April 28, 1975. And The New York Times, Aug. 14, 1976, reported "many signs that Earth may be headed for another ice age."
  • OK, you say, that's media. But what did our rational scientists say?
  • ... the present time of high temperatures should be drawing to an end…leading into the next ice age."
  • You can't blame these scientists for sucking up to the fed's mantra du jour. Scientists live off grants. ... Today's scientists merely lose their cash flow. Threats work.
  • In 2002 I stood in a room of the Smithsonian. One entire wall charted the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years. This was no straight line. The curve had two steep dips followed by leveling. There were no significant warming periods. Smithsonian scientists inscribed it across some 20 feet of plaster, with timelines.
  • Last year, I went back. That fresco is painted over. The same curve hides behind smoked glass, shrunk to three feet but showing the same cooling trend. Hey, why should the Smithsonian put its tax-free status at risk? 
  • It's the job of elected officials to whip up panic. They then get re-elected. Their supporters fall in line.
  • Al Gore thought he might ride his global warming crusade back toward the White House. If you saw his movie, which opened showing cattle on his farm, you start to understand how shallow this is. The United Nations says that cattle, farting and belching methane, create more global warming than all the SUVs in the world. 
  • The Christian Science Monitor observed that armadillos were retreating south from Nebraska to escape the "global cooling" in its Aug. 27, 1974 issue. ...That armadillo caveat seems reminiscent of today's tales of polar bears drowning due to glaciers disappearing.
  • Sadly, the public just learned that our scientific community hid data and censored critics.

  • Maybe the feds should drop this crusade and focus on our health care crisis. They should, of course, ignore the life insurance statistics that show every class of American and both genders are living longer than ever. That's another inconvenient fact.

v

If nothing else, the Gore Effect proves that God has a sense of humor.

Poor Tiger

Did he fill out a score card? 

 

→ Sure did, Seven

And it appears the club pro walked out on him today in protest.

Pay special attention to the OJ Simpson pigmentation trick they played in the photo.

LYDSEXICS UNTIE!

They aren't reporting the

They aren't reporting the real news anyway, so I guess these distractions matter little in that respect.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Bread....

and Circuses.

 

islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.

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