Yahoo Rigged Bush Headline While Reuters Set Up Kyoto Strawman
More headline editorializing, this time on Yahoo. A June 5 Reuters article titled, “Bush bashes Putin on democracy on eve of G8 summit” sounds like Bush attacked Russian president Vladimir Putin, but the body of the article clearly did not support that view.
The headline told a very different story than the article. Editors not reporters are generally responsible for headlines, and they can…
Couric Portrays Bush as Antagonist 'Annoying' Putin, Snubbing Global W
Discussing the G-8 summit with CBS's Jim Axelrod, Katie Couric on Wednesday night portrayed an “adamant” President George Bush as the antagonist causing Russian President Vladimir Putin to be “annoyed” about NATO plans to install a missile shield in Poland, a controversy, she fretted, that is distracting attention from global warming. “Economic issues and climate change were supposed to be the…
Bush Derangement Syndrome at LA Times: G-8’s Kyoto Failures All Bush
As people who are following the G-8 summit in Germany are well aware, it is highly doubtful that any meaningful accord will be reached at this meeting concerning CO2 emissions. In fact, reports out of Europe and Asia for many weeks leading up to this event have made this eventuality quite clear.Yet, this didn’t prevent the Los Angeles Times’ Ron Brownstein for blaming the lack of such an…
Media Ignored Criticisms of Socialized Medicine in Story of Quarantine
The media was fascinated with the story of the Americans in Michael Moore's "Sicko," who left the US for medical treatment in Cuba, a country with socialized medicine, and it was used to highlight the failings of the US health care system. When the exact opposite occurred, and an American fled Italy's socialized medicine for medical treatment in the privatized care of the US, the media decded…
Media Ignore European Energy Politics to Advance Global Warming Alarmi
There was a summit between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the European Union on Friday that yielded as little results as it did attention from America’s media.One of the issues on the table was whether Russia is going to provide more energy resources to EU nations starved for such.Didn’t hear about this?Well, that’s not surprising, for in the midst of the media’s ongoing attempts to…
Media Ignore Evidence of Global Climate Change 20,000 Years Ago
It's so easy, the cave men did it? LiveScience.com staff writer, Dave Mosher, wrote an article on Yahoo.com titled "Climate Change, Not Humans, Trounced Neanderthals" about Francisco Jimenez-Espejo, a University of Granada paleoclimatologist who “says a lack of evidence has left climate change weakly supported—until now. 'We put data behind the theory,' he said, filling in a large gap in…
