Fox News, right-wing media deserve a snowball in the kisser

[babylonsister]

Fox News, right-wing media deserve a snowball in the kisser
Karl Frisch
February 11, 2010 8:10 pm ET


I grew up in Los Angeles, so the notion of living in or around snow was romantic -- the thing of movies. Living in Washington, D.C., this past week has proven to be something entirely different.

Don't get me wrong, the calm quiet brought to my neighborhood by several feet of fresh powder blanketing the streets and sidewalks made for some amazing photos and an impromptu snowball fight or two.

It's the right-wing media that have spoiled the Rockwellian images that I associated with snow in my youth.

Like clockwork, every time even a few inches of snow falls, out come the conservative media's anti-science crazies. To them, cold weather proves what they already believe: that there is no global climate change, and even if there were, we humans certainly aren't even partly to blame.

This is as a good a moment as any to note that there is a very real difference between weather (what we experience outside over a short period of time) and climate (the study of weather over a relatively long period of time). Got that? Conservative media figures telling you that this week's blizzards (short period of time) disprove global climate change (relatively long period of time) are either lying or shockingly misinformed. I'll let them choose which is a more apt description.

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Ultimately, the science-mangling reports from right-wing media outlets big and small say just as much about their practice of journalism as their views on peer-reviewed climate science. Their disregard for the practice of science mirrors their disregard for the practice of journalism.

What, then, is the logical conclusion? They just can't be trusted on this or any other important issue.

http://mediamatters.org/columns/201002110041

[daleanime]

1. "They just can't be trusted..."

Hon, we've know that for years, it's trying to convince 25-30% of the population that's driving us crazy:silly:

[mwb970]

2. Wouldn't the unusually warm Olympics weather in Vancouver prove global warming then?

:shrug:

[depakid]

3. That's Canada, so it doesn't count

Only things that happen in America- and locally right now count.

Except, that is, when they actually happen and are explained by "other weather phenomena."

[Po_d Mainiac]

4. Ironic

The day after snow fell in 49 States, I got the first run of maple sap....This beats my old first run date by 8 days.

Obvious proof of global warming:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Tutankhamun]

5. Your average global warming denier just has absolutely no idea about media ownership

and its relationship to covering corporate ass. Instead, climate change is a fabrication liberals came up with because they secretly want to control everyone else's life because somehow it brings them a feeling of satisfaction.