Keith Kloor has put together a terrific post at his Collide-a-Scape blog consisting almost entirely of comments by readers of blogs on opposite sides of the climate change wars. Despite their bitter differences on climate, they seem to agree on one thing: utter disdain for the news media.
This is in keeping with some of the things I’ve been saying here at CEJournal lately. So here is a little taste of Keith’s post:
It turns out that readers at popular climate blogs on opposite ends of the spectrum have similar complaints about the media.
From a commenter at WUWT:
The LA Times has been a socialist rag, suitable mostly for lining the bottom of a parrot’s cage, for decades. When their marketers used to call to ask me to subscribe, I’d just tell them, “I don’t need the Times; I subscribe to Pravda and get everything a day earlier, including your editorials!”
From a commenter at Climate Progress:
Our mainstream media is clearly hopeless…for whatever reasons- mostly money, of course- our major media outlets are staffed by hopeless whores, beyond contempt and incapable of communicating facts that are central to the public interest.
From a commenter at WUWT:
Why should we be surprised that the ‘journalists’ at the NYT do not understand basic physics or science?
They believe in climate apocalypse, after all.From a commenter at Climate Progress:
We’re in big trouble if the nation’s best newspaper [NYT] is scientifically illiterate, with the Washington Post, LA Times, and Chicago Tribune no better.
There’s much more over at Keith’s blog, so click here now and head on over.
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Charlie Petit really nailed it in endorsing one of your recent posts:
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