The Center for American Progress affiliated attack group “Forecast the Facts” is turning on the CBS News magazine “60 Minutes” for reporting truthfully on the issues surrounding green technology last Sunday.
See the press release below and the full video from CBS News follows.
For Immediate Release January 9, 2013
Contact: Anna Zuccaro, anna@fitzgibbonmedia.com, (914) 523-9145
Benghazi Redux? 60 Minutes “Cleantech Crash” Segment Severely Misleads Viewers
Climate Group Forms Online Petition in Demand of Public Editor
Washington, DC — On January 5th, 60 Minutes aired a segment entitled “Cleantech Crash” and made false accusations regarding the nation’s clean energy economy. The broadcast failed to mention that the clean energy industry has actually been booming, and that the increasing and severe threats of climate change makes the transition from fossil fuel pollution an economic necessity.
Not only did the “Cleantech Crash” segment mislead viewers, it threatened our ability to confront the global warming crisis.
Fortunately, 60 Minutes can still set the record straight: by appointing a Public Editor, the program can see to it that this particular broadcast is investigated, ensure that all future reporting serves the public interest and deliver more accurate information about climate change to their audience.
“Those who watched 60 Minutes this past Sunday might be under the impression that cleantech is dead, our hope for a much-needed green energy economy down the tubes,” said Forecast the Facts campaign director Brant Olson. “Fortunately for the world and unfortunately for good investigative journalism, 60 Minutes got the future of clean energy technology wrong—very wrong. 60 Minutes should appoint a Public Editor to restore its damaged reputation.”
Take a stand with us and sign the petition to demand the appointment of a 60 Minutes Public Editor, which will be delivered to Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS News and Executive Producer of 60 Minutes: http://act.forecastthefacts.org/sign/sixty_minutes_public_editor.
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THE VIDEO:
From the YouTube video description:
Published on Jan 5, 2014
Despite billions invested by the U.S. government in so-called “Cleantech” energy, Washington and Silicon Valley have little to show for it. Lesley Stahl reports.
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And not a fact was cited.
“How DARE you knock over our rice bowl!”
“: by appointing a Public Editor, the program can see to it that this particular broadcast is investigated, ensure that all future reporting serves the public interest and deliver more accurate information about climate change to their audience.”
Yes Commissar.
I like the idea of a Public Editor. That Public Editor should be me. 🙂
“the increasing and severe threats of climate change makes the transition from fossil fuel pollution an economic necessity.”
These boys are chooming!
I’ll be happy to serve as public editor ;o)
Ooops! I see a fight brewing over who gets to be public editor :o)
Can we call for a public editor to work on Forecast the Facts?
ah yes… an overseer.
to ensure the ‘public interest’ — as defined by whom?
Is the president still mentioning Spain as shining example?
The 60 Minutes segment seemed pretty straightforward and factual, “fair and balanced” even, just what I expect from a quality show. Likewise, the reaction of “Forecast the Facts” is just what I expect from a whack-job organization.
“Take a stand with us and sign the petition to demand the appointment of a 60 Minutes Public Editor, which will be delivered to Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS News and Executive Producer of 60 Minutes.”
Alles klar, Herr Kommisar!
“Those who watched 60 Minutes this past Sunday might be under the impression that cleantech is dead, our hope for a much-needed green energy economy down the tubes,” said Forecast the Facts campaign director Brant Olson.
Green energy economy = Theft from taxpayers
60 minutes….DON”T even think of giving in to these bullies. They are pushing a lousy product, and climate alarmism is their only sales gimmick. They should be thrown in jail for fraud.
Message says video not available yet in my country (Australia).
It’s one I’d like to see if that was possible, mods.
Thanks Geoff.
Ironic that a call for “accurate reporting” from a group calling themselves “Forecast The Facts” doesn’t actually contain anything that addresses the alleged errors (other than saying they’re “wrong, very wrong”, which tells us nothing)
Aww… I don’t get to see the video because I’m in the wrong country.
How very….Soviet sounding.
It should border on intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that production of gasoline from loblolly pulp pines would be difficult and end up with a product much more costly than the petroleum product it is supposed to replace. It ought to be obvious that the process uses a feed stock that can’t supply the need long term. That’s one of the reason that these types of processes are highly subsidized research oddities. If a billionaire wants to dump his money into these fiascos, fine. Our tax money and subsidies into obvious failures should never be used and anyone, including the guy Stahl interviewed, should be investigated for waste fraud and abuse.
Most of these cleantech projects seem to be money from the federal government funneled to Obama donors. The whole thing seems ripe for corruption. I don’t see the fine folks at forcastethefacts lining up to pump their own money into this.
Holy Smokes! Leslie Stahl and 60 Minutes actually did some investigative reporting???
Well! We can’t allow them to forecastthefacts like that! We have to put a stop to that RIGHT NOW! Next thing ya know, the little people will start thinking they’ve been conned and bankrupted for nothing…. and, before they freeze to death in the vortex, they just might grab up their pitch forks and torches and really try to kill the green monster, if that happens!!
/sarc
We can’t watch the video in Australia. Any chance of fixing this problem?
I also could not view the video in Aus – however I watched it the Huffington Post site
Geoff Sherrington:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cleantech-crash-60-minutes/
They reek of desperation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/world/europe/spains-solar-pullback-threatens-pocketbooks.html?ref=science&_r=0
Does the NYT need a Public Editor