On Newspapers and Spectator Sports

As I read the piece, my reaction to the author’s point of view seemed odd until I realized what was going on. I was used to reading blogs like Instapundit and Mish where the blog is focused on what the news means to me. Mish and the Puppy Blender succeed because what they write is aimed at me as a participant instead of me as a spectator. I’m not nearly as concerned with what Harry Reid has to say so much as I am with what Treasury auctions are going to do.

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CNN ‘Translates’ for Us

When the Media ‘reports’ events with a description that is clearly different that what has happened then why are they surprised that we no longer find them credible?  The original was written in English…

Is this willful misreading or crashing idiocy? Gadahn says “Muslim” and CNN turns it into “innocent.”

56 Newspapers to Sing As One About Copenhagen

Despite mounting evidence that key climate researchers were less than honest, and other indications that the science is not settled, tomorrow 56 newspapers will run a common front page editorial saying we have ‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation’…

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Are people contributing to the warming of the planet?  How will we know when the ‘scientists’ are behaving so un-scientifically by preventing opposing views from being peer-reviewed (while simultaneously claiming that they should be), by suggesting the criminal deletion of information in response to Freedom of Information requests and by computer code for their models that exposes just how corrupt and fragile their predictions are (in addition to not being able to predict the non-warming of the last decade)?  And even so all of these newspapers show their collusion by defending this un-scientific group by not covering ClimateGate and instead making their biases more than clear.

If the search for truth is not an aim of these “news” organizations then their days are truly numbered.