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 Former CBS News correspondent Bernie Goldberg says the
liberal mainstream media is largely ignoring the voices of scientists
and academics who are skeptical of the notion that global warming is
caused by human activity.
For its April 21 issue, TIME
magazine replaced the traditionally red border on its cover with a
green one to spotlight its top story titled "How to Win the War on
Global Warming." The cover also took the famous photograph of the
Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima and replaced the flag
with a tree.
Goldberg, a Fox News analyst and author of the best-selling book Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, says one of the most one-sided media reports on global warming was done by Scott Pelley for CBS's 60 Minutes.
According to Goldberg, when Pelley was interviewed about the bias in
the report, his response was typical of the mainstream media.
"He said, 'Well, if I interview somebody who says that there was a
Holocaust, do I have to go out and find a Holocaust denier?' You see
what they do?" Goldberg responds. "They equate people who question the
reason, not the existence of, but the reason for global warming -- they
equate them with Holocaust deniers," he contends.
According to Goldberg, although global warming by no means shares a
category with the Holocaust, the media has placed it into that
category. "This is the same media that, not that many years ago in the
1970s, was running cover stories on their news magazines about global
cooling and the coming of the new Ice Age," he points out. "They didn't
even say 'Oops!' when they got that one wrong."
The journalist jokes that "being liberal means never having to say
you're sorry." Goldberg expects a similar response this time around.
"I suspect that if and when they get this one wrong -- when it becomes
obvious that global warming isn't quite as simple as Al Gore and the
media's version of it -- I suspect they won't even say 'Oops!' this
time around. They'll just go on to the next thing," Goldberg points out.
The veteran correspondent says he once told a liberal friend that he
was not convinced global warming was a real threat, and the friend
responded by asking, "Are you convinced that gravity is real?" Source
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