Sunday, February 21, 2010

How Do You Know what you know 7: The "biggest scientific scandal ever" everywhere but in the US

It's been called the 'Biggest Scientific Scandal of All Time' but in the US it's a non story. The English press has been chewing on this bone for months but the press in "The World's Greatest Democracy"? Not so much.

Failing to report stories when they don't fit one's ideological agenda is a sign of weakness and cowardice. Which coincidentally appear to be two core values of America's so called "main stream media".

So how DO you know what you know?

Postscript: the head of the East Anglia CRU, Phil Jones had a rather damning interview on BBC where he walked back from several central tropes of the Gorean howl. To wit: there has been no net warming since 1995(!) and that Midieval temperatures could very well have been warmer than today. Here's a list of 'responsible' journalistic organizations that have failed to report on it one week on:

# No mention by the New York Times
# No mention by the Washington Post
# No mention by USA Today
# No mention by ANY major U.S. newspaper EXCEPT the Washington Times
# No mention by the Associated Press
# No mention by Reuters
# No mention by UPI
# No mention by ABC News
# No mention by CBS News
# No mention by NBC News
# No mention by MSNBC

1 comment:

  1. Scientists around the world are running from this train wreck. And politicians around the world have been using it to enrich themselves and to make a radical, rapid power grab. It's amazing the media in the US have been so quiescent. Of course, they went for Obama in the same way - blind, stupid and drooling.

    The truth is a powerful equalizer. I wonder what the consequences will ultimately be??

    Only your mother knows for sure.

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