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Elsewhere in the Enviro-Activist Mediasphere

By Paul Chesser on 11.21.09 @ 12:13PM

No need for me to leave out the other two media objects of my occasional denunciation in the Climategate story. George Soros's organizational daughter-in-law, Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin, apparently was instructed by her editor to come up with copy superficially sufficient to fill a 472-word space on page A14. Of course she obliged, tapping out a crime story while barely addressing the substance of what was discovered. She even read the statement from the Climate Research Unit confirming authenticity of the records, made at least four phone calls, and included the sexy part about the alarmists wanting to beat up Pat Michaels (Look at that face -- you wanna mess with him?!)!

Not bad, I guess, for a getaway Friday -- but points deducted, Juliet, for accepting at face value the CRU/alarmist assumption that it was a hack job. Very well could have been an insider with a conscience.

As for my other target, I decided to visit the Web site of the Society of Environmental Journalists to see what, if any, buzz might be going on there (despite it being a usually quiet Saturday). It was quiet, but they do have a news aggregator with continual feeds from other news organizations. I found the following headlines among the most recent (which include Saturday stories):

Hidden threat: Elevated pollution levels near regional airports
Today's Arctic Circle Comic Strip
Michigan recycling rates drop
Children starve in parched southern Madagascar
As nuclear reactor fleet ages, engineers ask,' is 80 the new 40?'
Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico

No sign of climate research units, emails, scientist tricks, hackers, or East Anglia. Maybe Monday!

topics:
Mainstream Media, Global Warming, Environmentalism, Climate Change

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Jason Gillman| 11.21.09 @ 3:18PM

Did you hear there were a Million plus folks in Washington DC protesting on September 12?

Well in a roundabout way.. you may have.

Point is.. THIS story as well as the story of Sept 12 don't fit the comfort zone of the "trained" journalist. They are little but automatons of the currently power holding machine, hoping for a hand out when their time comes.

When Katie Curic asked Sarah Palin which newspapers she reads, Palin should have answered "Now why would I go and do a silly thing like that?"

Joel Raupe| 11.21.09 @ 8:33PM

Keep after 'em, Paul. The alarmists seem to have peaked in street cred about one year ago, which I have arbitrarily marked with the resignation of Dr. Harrison Schmidt from the NASA Advisory Council and soon after with a public statement to the Planetary Society, space advocates all.

Judging by the work of Steve McIntyre at climateaudit.org, the die is cast and the jinn is out of the bottle. It will take some time, persistence and courage but at least there really is some opposition out there to the ridiculous and unproven alarmism.

Margie| 11.21.09 @ 8:33PM

When Katie Curic asked Sarah Palin which newspapers she reads, Palin should have answered "Now why would I go and do a silly thing like that?""
~Good one.
Another response could've been~ "Newspapers? OMG. They're so DEAD. Like network t.v. news. I mean we all KNOW you guys gotta have me here cause your ratings are so in the toilet bowl!"

r4i software| 11.23.09 @ 4:34AM

Thats good if initiatives are been taken for the environment. We are the one who are gonna stay in this environment. its a good idea take updates about it if anything is going on for the safe and healthy environment.

louis vuitton| 4.26.10 @ 10:27PM

we election in this sprawling upstate district represents a political "revolution." canada goose another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O'Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as "devastating.