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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