Thermometers – They Lie

Filed in National by on December 16, 2010

Someone is leaking internal documents from Fox News showing how the “wall” between Fox’s opinion organization and the news organization is non-existent.

In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the “veracity of climate change data” and ordering the network’s journalists to “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.”

The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was “on track to be the warmest [decade] on record.”

So far the news media has had 0 coverage on the revelations but this quote from a media expert floors me.

Sources familiar with the situation in Fox’s Washington bureau have expressed concern about Sammon using his position to “slant” Fox’s supposedly neutral news coverage to the right.

Where have they been for the last decade. This is the problem – the mainstream media has decided to treat Fox with a wink and a nudge and I guess they are too embarrassed to admit it.

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  1. Libsareclueless says:

    Global warming is a myth. deal with it, it is a MYTH!! Just so guys like Al Gore and Mikey Moore can have jobs, make speeches and -duh-MAKE TONS OF MONEY !! Just another scare tactic by the left.
    What’s next- you’re going to say that the boogeyman is coming?!!
    Gimme a break!!

  2. Libsareclueless says:

    FOX NEWS- Fair and Balanced.
    WHAT is the left afraid of?? If FOX was so off their rockers, you’d have nothing to worry about! They are the ONLY network that truthfully is- fair and balanced. They report- YOU decide.
    Like my name reads- LIBS ARE CLUELESS
    NO, i am not some gun-toting toothless Odonnell supporter who is married to my sister. Just a common sense man who is tired of the left and all their Bullsh–

    Have a nice day!!

  3. aprice says:

    DAMN! he found out about the boogyman….. we better make she he doesnt find out about the conservative internment camps we have planned! or the forced gay-bortions!

  4. Thank you for exposing the truth about the conspiracy between thermometers and scientists to make Al Gore rich. This was all revealed by oil companies because they are good citizens and don’t have anything to gain by denying their products hurt the environment.