ABC Journalism: Fraudulent or Truthful?

[sunsettommy]

WEBCommentary Editor
Author: Bob Webster
Date: April 3, 2008

ABC Journalism: Fraudulent or Truthful?

ABC's Dan Harris smears respected physicist, Dr. Fred Singer as a "global warming denier"

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The only useful measure of the value of journalism is the degree to which an article informs the public with objective truth. On that basis, the recent article by ABC (Global Warming Denier: Fraud or 'Realist'? Physicist Says Humans Will Benefit From Warmer Planet - Dan Harris) scores an abysmal zero.

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ABC News' recent smear of Dr. Fred Singer is reproduced on its web site (story dated March 23, 2008, "Global Warming Denier: Fraud or 'Realist'/Physicist Says Humans Will Benefit From Warmer Planet (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=4506059&page=1)"). That story is dissected below with appropriate comments.

The only useful measure of the value of journalism is the degree to which an article informs the public with objective truth. On that basis, the recent article by ABC (Global Warming Denier: Fraud or 'Realist'? Physicist Says Humans Will Benefit From Warmer Planet - Dan Harris, Felicia Biberica, Elizabeth Stuart and Nils Kongshaug contributed to this report.) scores an abysmal zero.

The article begins, His fellow scientists call him a fraud, a charlatan and a showman ... which is neither true nor objective. Further, it is a smear as it fails to identify any of the claimed "fellow scientists" (how very convenient!).

The article continues: Singer, an 84-year-old Princeton-trained physicist, is the grandfather of the global warming skeptics who dispute the established scientific consensus that global warming is real, that it is caused by the pollution humans are pumping into the atmosphere, and that it will be catastrophic if measures are not taken immediately.


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[DoctorDoom]

The expression "ABC journalism: is oxymoronic, similar to "liberal thought" and "honest politicians". ABC is, like all of its peers, hyperleftist. Its agenda prevails over fact, logic and reason. IOW, business as usual for the DBM.

... the global warming skeptics who dispute the established scientific consensus that global warming is real ...And that renders ABC's already minimal credibility nonexistent. Like "ABC journalism", "scientific consensus" is an oxymoron. Consensus has nothing to do with science, and it bloody well does not validate anything.

"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
-- Anatole France

[Rhino]

ABC Journalism: Fraudulent or Truthful?Is this a trick question?

[Lubbock]

Fraudulent.

And that's without reading the link.

[oldcoastie]

Is this a trick question?

I thought it was just rhetorical.

[sunsettommy]

ABC Journalism: Fraudulent or Truthful?


I thought it was a question.

:smirky:

[DesertFox]

Nothing wrong with consensus. If all reputable scientists in a field think something is so, chances are it's so insofar as it's within our abilities to know.

But like anything else, phony consensus is worthless. Somebody named Al Gore said there was a consensus about global warming among scientists in the field, and he lied. There wasn't then, nor is there now, a consensus about much of anything in meteorology.

Al Gore is part of the wholesale corruption of the media that has taken place since the Nixon presidency, with Exhibit A being the New York Times under Arthur Pinch Sulzberger.