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smallcat88

(426 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:36 PM Jun 2014

Fox News criticizes Flagstaff newspaper for not providing 'balance' in climate change coverage

Whoa, talk about the pot calling the kettle black:
Fox News anchor Bret Baier has a beef with the Arizona Daily Sun. Baier called out the Sun's editor, Randy Wilson, for refusing to give equal coverage to climate-change deniers.
"The editor of the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff does not have room for balance in his newspaper," Baier said on the Monday, June 16, edition of Special Report with Bret Baier.
Just like Fox is "fair and balanced" on their coverage of all things Obama. Yeah, sure. Baier criticized the Flagstaff paper for "refusing to give equal coverage to climate-change deniers." Equal, as in: If you print 5 column inches about the proven and devastating effects of industrialization, then you must print 5 column inches from deniers—corporate mouthpieces and creationists mostly. And while we're at it, let's give equal space to the flat-earthers, the 9/11 truthers, and cigarette company CEOs who deny their product's harmful effects.
There simply is no "equal" or "balanced" debate about human-caused climate change, if by "equal" Baier means there's the same number of experts on both sides of the issue. Last year one study found that 97 percent of scientific papers agreed that humans are responsible for the ecological messes that soil our planet. That's 97/3, not 50/50 or anywhere close! In the editorial that got Bret Baier all hot and bothered, Randy Wilson said it's time to put the "balanced" BS behind us and move on.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/18/1307880/-Fox-News-criticizes-Flagstaff-newspaper-for-not-providing-balance-in-climate-change-coverage

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Fox News criticizes Flagstaff newspaper for not providing 'balance' in climate change coverage (Original Post) smallcat88 Jun 2014 OP
Proportional representation makes sense to me. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #1
Not even worth a comment... santamargarita Jun 2014 #2
FOX: news from an alternate universe for those who want to flee reality.... Bill USA Jun 2014 #3

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. Proportional representation makes sense to me.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:42 PM
Jun 2014

50 inches of column on climate change, with a one paragraph disclaimer that corporate rw scientists disagree.

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
3. FOX: news from an alternate universe for those who want to flee reality....
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:53 PM
Jun 2014

Truth is stranger than fiction.



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