Joe Romm and Al Gore share one thing in common besides being paid for blogging, writing, and making opinions on climate to scare the dickens out of people: they don’t understand what journalism is supposed to be about. Not only that, Joe shows his own bias and hyprocrisy compared to how he dealt with Climategate emails a year ago:
Joe Romm at Climate Progress 11/21/2009:
Note: No, I’m not thrilled with reprinting part of an illegally stolen e-mail, but this was in Wired and has been confirmed by the author and actually deals with the science.
Joe Romm at Climate Progress 12/15/2010:
Kudos to Media Matters for unearthing this story from the anti-earth folks at Fox News. See also the Politico story, “Fox editor urged climate skepticism.”
He seems thrilled to publish such a “stolen email” now, when it suits his cause. And of course, he puts the Fox News email front and center, but you won’t find him doing that for any of the climategate emails, lest he scare the flock.
And here’s what he’s all bent out of shape about, this passage from the Fox News “illegally obtained” email, bold mine.
…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.
Gore writes on his blog today:
“Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis. The leaked emails now suggest that this bias comes directly from the executives responsible for their news coverage.
Heh, a year ago Gore wouldn’t even read the emails from CRU, and got caught with his foot in his mouth: Al Gore can’t tell time – thinks most recent Climategate email is more than 10 years old
Of course, there’s no mention of his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, being hauled into court in Britain and found to be “false and misleading”.
There’s also no mention of the CRU emails on Gore’s blog, the entire month of November last year, even after major media outlets such as the New York Times had reported on it. He was sure to wish everyone a “happy Thanksgiving” though. In fact it took Gore a full month, until Dec 18th, 2009 to make any mention of it at all, and then it was only a sideways glance, by reporting on a favorable story (for him) in Politico.
And let’s not forget this story, where Al locks our reporters from his presentation, and is even bold enough to put up a sign to that effect: Gore to press: Stay Out!
It seems to be a pattern with Mr. Gore: Journalists pan Gore secrecy
Neither Al or Joe seem to get what journalism is supposed to be about. Here’s a clue.
The Encyclopedia of American journalism, By Stephen L. Vaughn, page 38, says:
A “core journalistic value”.
As Lachlan Markay at Newsbusters writes:
So Sammon instructed staff to incorporate the most basic tenets of science and journalism – skepticism and political neutrality, respectively – into their reporting on contentious scientific issues with tremendous political implications. And this is a problem?
Only if you are MediaMatters, Joe Romm, or Al Gore.
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Rob, you are hilarious.
i’d feel happier if whoever is involved with the short Fox Extra reports dropped all the alarmist CAGW stories.
yesterday murdoch’s newspapers throughout australia ran with the alarmist coastal maps story, yet today we have ABC including mention of the disclaimer which was not referred to yesterday:
16 Dec: ABC: Council rejects rising sea level forecast
“They’re using all sorts of assumptions that aren’t necessarily accurate in the local conditions.”
Cr Young says council will be releasing more accurate maps early next year.
“I’m concerned that people might take these maps as being really accurate – they’re clearly not,” he said.
“I’d encourage people to give consideration to the disclaimer that precedes the maps – it basically says, ‘don’t rely on these’.”…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/12/16/3094581.htm
anthony, start packing!
15 Dec: Mercury News: Dana Hull: California to adopt ‘cap and trade’ to combat climate change
Taking the lead where Washington has wavered, California on Thursday is expected to adopt the nation’s most ambitious plan yet to curb global warming…
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16868556?nclick_check=1
Media Matters, Al Gore and Joe Romm all have one thing in common: George Soros.
If Romm wasn’t bought and paid for, and kept on the Soros
leashpayroll, he would be nothing.Same with Media Matters – a 100% Soros-funded propaganda organization.
Al Gore is a little different. He’s part of Big Tobacco, and was Vice-President, and the Democrat nominee who ran against G.W. Bush – and lost what should have been a sure thing: with great name recognition, and a great economy, how could he possibly lose?? Well, for one thing, he couldn’t even carry his home state. Gore is a real Bozo, doubled and squared.
So Albert made globaloney his fallback position. Lucrative for Gore – but at everyone else’s expense. Just like his tobacco farming.
To paraphrase Steve Schneider I can’t accept the validity of redacted memos leaked by people whose values I don’t trust.
“…we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. ”
Even Phil Jones says the earth hasn’t warmed recently, so the fact that Fox wants to treat assertions of warming with caution is eminently reasonable.
“It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
And this is controversial because …?
Sorry, if the AGW movement is getting enervated over this there is something seriously wrong with their reasoning skills.
When it comes to good reporting, more people trust FoxNews than any other media. That surely does not mean most people are stupid!
Bill Sammon is fair and balanced, I think.
A former Enron employee’s view on Romm :
http://masterresource.org/category/romm-versus-0bradley-enron/
Who is Joe Romm?
I have issues with all the networks. Every reporter these days is just a talking head spewing his or her spin on the news. No one just reports the news. I prefer the dry old, “he said this, she said that” style of boring background sitting at a table reporting. News men and women these days seem to consider themselves to be the expert on everything they report. Even the balanced reporters have to add their two cents worth. Just report the fricken news. STOP EDITORIALIZING!
Oops some one needs a good old pull on some of Granpas, sipping cough mixture, arthtritis and gout remedy. It’s even been known to fuel the Model T at times.
Aaargh.
Did you know that Al Baby was shining for a while, his stuff was called Silent Spring, him and Mammy Sue, got the recipe from a book.
People are now so scared of it they won’t even use it fer paint stripping.
Yer I know, Back in yer box Jack.
Will anyone be closely following Sammon’s future career path and good health? I hope they will be.
Romm is a warmerholic. He can’t put it down. He’s deliriously intoxicated with bias and hypocrisy.
Pamela Gray:
I prefer the dry old, “he said this, she said that” style of boring background sitting at a table reporting.
Pamela, I’m with you on this. Up to here with chit-chat news.
polistra says:
December 15, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Don’t hold your breath on NPR being either fair or balanced – on anything – any time soon. I’m sure the phrasing you heard was just an aberration. I just got through hearing a report on how wonderful the health care rationing is working out in Britain. They just can’t understand why those horrible right wing rethugicans could possibly refer to such a humane redistribution of scarce health care money as a “death panel”.
The “formula” they quoted sounded an awful lot to me like the one Michael Crichton pointed out that was supposed to calculate the number of planets in the universe with intelligent life. It sounds wise on the surface but as soon as you try to actually apply it, becomes abhorrent.
NPR is an unabashed AGW alarmist cheerleader and I see no sign of that abating.
“Kudos to Media Matters for unearthing this story from the anti-earth folks at Fox News.”
Yes, kudos to Media Matters, George Soros, and all the U.S. haters.
Dis biga bombshell comrades. Soon our
plan to take over will be complete. Climate
science is linchpin to world domination.
Leader out!
What a frickin joke. LMAO
Romm’s claim that “climate science” is settled is absolutely true—“climate science” is a misnomer for “wealth redistribution” that IS settled if you ask those zealots who are pushing to enforce global governance. Now, SCIENCE, on the other hand, ISN’T settled because of the nature of the beast. (These people really should hyphenate their term (climate-science) or maybe even just make a single word out of it (climatescience) so everybody understands it is an insidious political ploy masquerading behind a science banner—similar to the word “hamburger” that really has no ham in it whatsoever. Maybe they could just shorten it to “climsci” so it rolls off the tongue easier and avoids direct reference to “science” altogether, thereby minimizing the confusion.) I’ll give it a try:
To emphasize their self-righteous position as patron monarchs of climsci, I often see double emphasis used, as in this statement by Romm:
Applying the term “illegally” to a Climategate email should be sufficient; adding “stolen” suspends a clear understanding—are we dealing with a double negative here, or are they just trying to drive home the point by tedious (and unnecessary) adjective repetition? (Since I’m not a legal scholar, perhaps there is actually such a thing as a “legally stolen” e-mail. Any suggestions from you experts in jurisprudence?)
Clearly, such obfuscation of standard English is common by those who support climsci.
Hahaha, Fox sure knows how to attract a wider audience: leak an email stating Fox’s intent to be objective, have some of its competitors go ballistic in a public P.R. campaign, and voila! Hasn’t it been proven over and over that demonizing Fox only seems to increase its ratings? So are the CAGW Master Sargents really just trying to hold onto their crazier[?] base and reinforce its condition-response attack dog training through continued practice?
Andy Whorewhole: (SP?) —
“There is NO such thing as ‘bad publicity’..”
For FOX and other public media, this is very true.
GO FOX!
Max
So when Al Gore goes on CBS television with Dave Letterman and says that 6 ft under the surface of the earth it’s one million degress, how do honest thinking people listen to him. He didn’t get a “D” in science for nothing.
I guess the hardest job on the planet are grave diggers, they must have special suits to stand those temperatures.
I wonder how Gore knows that the email was “leaked”?
Indeed: was it leaked or hacked? For the CRU file dump it looks a clear case of the former, although the Norfolk police keeps mum. For this Fox mail it is not clear now.
At 7:17 PM on 15 December, Pamela Gray had written:
It is impossible to avoid subjective bias in the reporting of any factual matter. With this understood, it should be continuously acknowledged that anybody who claims to be presenting “just the facts” without explicitly stating his prejudices is simply lying to you.
Heck, just look at all of these “nonpartisan” or “bipartisan” Web sites – like Snopes.com and the Annenberg Foundation’s FactCheck.org – which make great protestations of dispassionate objectivity but which are in fact overwhelmingly “Liberal” (i.e, progressive-socialist-fascist-leftie) in their not-so-subtle Ministry of Truth functions.
I am content if an information source states its political philosophy explicitly, and strives to keep consistency with that expressed stance. Thus I tend to rely more upon openly libertarian sites – the Cato Institute, the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell’s stuff, and so forth – because I know pretty much precisely where these people are coming from and I can with reasonable reliability adjust for their predispositions.
When I’m looking at “social conservative” sources – particularly the religious whackjobs who claim (Allah spare us!) all sorts of divine inspiration and at base predicate everything on an appeal to the ineffable – the grain of salt with which their stuff must be taken exceeds the canonical 65 milligrams by four or five orders of magnitude. Conservatives are almost as bad as “Liberals.”
Not quite, by any means. But almost.
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Vinny says:
December 15, 2010 at 9:20 pm
“So when Al Gore goes on CBS television with Dave Letterman and says that 6 ft under the surface of the earth it’s one million degress, how do honest thinking people listen to him. He didn’t get a “D” in science for nothing.”
Well, you’d be rather amazed to follow co2insanity’s advice (below) and go see all the people who actually do believe every word he says. If the Huffpo posters on that story represent ‘average’ Americans, the country is doomed. I must, must, believe that they are not.
co2insanity says:
December 15, 2010 at 4:57 pm
“If you want some fun go read the comments at Huffpo. Take extra blood-pressure meds before you start reading.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-gore/post_1436_b_797323.html