Russ Steele
Writing the news to fit the environmentalist template destroys the credibility the reporter and the newspaper. This weekend there was clear example at the BBC, when activists caused the BBC to change story from the World Meteorological Organization that there has been no global warming since 1998. The whole sad exchange is recorded at Jennifer Marohasy's Blog
The BBC Changes News to Accommodate Activist
Posted by jennifer, at 08:35 PM
I have been emailed the following correspondence, purportedly between an activist, Jo Abbess, and BBC Environment reporter Roger Harrabin. It would appear that the result of the email exchange between the activist and the reporter was that the BBC changed its story. In particular instead of reporting the story as received from the World Meteorological Organisation, the BBC modified the story as demanded by the activist who was concerned that in its original form it supported 'the skeptics' correct observation that there has been no warming since 1998.
The Reference Frame has quick summary of the whole sordid mess, ending with this statement:
Well, this is how the media and not only media work these days. If the article doesn't obey the requirements of far-left movements from the very beginning and if the journalist resists the first batch of aggressive e-mails, he will usually surrender to the second batch. Many journalists are either biased activists or cowards. And some of them are both.
The facts are no longer important, only the propaganda that humans are warming the earth is allowed in the news. As a result the credibility of main stream press declines and readers look elsewhere for the truth.
The facts, we have not seen any warming for the last ten years. An now the CO2 is declining also see Watts Up With That.
