[quote="rickheel"] Newsweek Editor Admits Green Media Bias

Kevin Decorla-Souza
June 27, 2001


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Last Saturday, Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, revealed a dirty practice of the weekly magazine, further validating conservative claims that the news media is liberally biased. On CNN's Reliable Sources, Thomas confessed: "We launder our views through, quote, 'objective critics.' And certainly the press is pretty green, the press is pretty pro-environment and I don't think there's any question that they, as a body, feel that Bush is wrong on the environment. I'm excluding the conservative press - the Weekly Standard and so forth - but generally the press is pretty green and they're going to use the Europeans to take the Bushies to task."

This revelation comes as no surprise to critics of the media who have watched the press give increased attention to green activists on the global warming issue while virtually ignoring scientific skeptics who believe that the gloomy climate change scenarios are exaggerated or wrong. A recent analysis of televised stories on global warming by the Media Research Center found that the news media gave 6 times as much attention to proponents of global warming than to naysayers. Three broadcast networks, ABC, NBC and CBS completely excluded the opinions of global warming skeptics from their coverage. Despite the unanimous 95-0 vote against the Kyoto Protocol in the U.S. Senate, supporters of the treaty were given more than twice as much attention as those who agreed with Bush's decision to scrap the economically disastrous - and probably unnecessary and ineffective - treaty. Free Market opponents to the economic restrictions created by Kyoto were outnumbered by spokesmen for environmental organizations by a 20 to 3 margin in the news. The Media Research Center obtained these figures by analyzing 51 global warming stories that appeared on 5 major cable and broadcast evening news programs between Inauguration Day (January 20) and Earth Day (April 22).

Another interesting find by the Media Research Center was that none of the environmental spokesmen and activists were ever given the label "liberal" by journalists. Commenting on the intrinsic bias of the press in a May 24 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Bernard Goldberg, a former correspondent for CBS News, said: "

[quote="rickheel"] Last one..........


Media Bias and
Campaign Finance

by J. Peter Mulhern

he biases of the elite media are too well documented to make good column fodder. Most journalists have a tribal attachment to the Democrat Party that transcends even ideology. This attachment permeates political reporting, reducing most of it to the sort of silly propaganda Tass and Pravda churned out before the Soviet Union crumbled.

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