Friday, December 04, 2009

Climategate versus Journalism

It has been about 3 weeks since the whistleblower (unlike the New York Times*, I believe that the person who posted the emails was a whistleblower and not a hacker) uploaded the emails to the web and apart from a few reports from various news organizations (especially that one named after a wiley critter) noone has mentioned the story. I thought it was the job of reporters to report the news? Instead we are focusing on Mr. Woods supposed trangressions. Another area the press is giving 24/7 continous coverage is how the newspapers are requiring a bailout themselves. So instead of covering the real news of the day, the major papers are no better than the tabloids that they make fun of. And they want my money to boot! I have nothing personal against newspapers, but come on. If you want people to buy your product, than make it relevent. I read Times of London and the Daily Telegraph online because I no longer live in the U.K. Other than those newspaper, I no longer read the newspaper, not even the local newspaper. Reason is that for the most part, newspapers are sycophants to usually their liberal masters, they lost how to be unbaised and objective when reporting the news. Oh, there is one thing aspect of Climategate that they are reporting on and that is how Phil Jones and his ilk are saying that the emails are being taken out of context and also reporting that algore has come saying Hopenchangen summit doesn't go far enough to erode the rights of all Americans and that the world needs to go further to erode our God given rights! Well thank you mainstream press, your service is no longer needed nor wanted. Please die quickly.

* The New York Times sees fit to print leaks, as in the case of Daniel Ellsberg, who illegaly leaked the Pentagon Papers to them, and the ravings of mad men such as Theodore Kaczynski and his treatise entitled "Industrial Society and Its Future". But in the case of Climategate, the New York Times is taking the high moral ground and not publishing them at all.

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