The media's complicity

Maybe the larger scandal in the climategate dust up is the media's continued inattention to the leaked memos.....

The BBC has become tangled in the row over the alleged manipulation of scientific data on global warming.

One of its reporters has revealed he was sent some of the leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia more than a month ago – but did nothing about them.

Despite the explosive nature of some of the messages – which revealed apparent attempts by the CRU’s head, Professor Phil Jones, to destroy global temperature data rather than give it to scientists with opposing views – Paul Hudson failed to report the story.

This has led to suspicions that the scandal was ignored because it ran counter to what critics say is the BBC’s unquestioning acceptance in many of its programmes that man-made climate change is destroying the planet.

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One of the reasons that the traditional media outlets continue their trek to irrelevancy is the overt politicization of their craft. It's become so old hat for these outlets to believe that they are the sole arbiters of truth they really can not alter their business paradigm for the 21st century. One that actually makes money by including 50% of their prospective customers.


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