Little-Acorn
07-23-2008, 11:39 AM
The gap between real life and the TV newsreaders' view of it, continues to grow. They consistently fail to question even the most ridiculous statements by liberal pundits and politicians, regardless of the effect those people's plans might have on the country.
People like Gore would have been dismissed as unthinking, jingoistic buffoons long ago, if not for this constant puffery and support from the media, who keeps acting as though he is making valid points. You have to wonder how long the American public is going to put up with such journalistic laziness and sloth presented on the screen.
Is it any wonder that these people's rating are falling and their shows getting cancelled time and again?
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GORE SPEAKS, TV SWOONS OVER $3 TRILLION ENERGY MAKEOVER
by Rich Noyes
July 22, 2008
For someone offering up an incredibly expensive proposal that would radically alter the entire U.S. economy, it's astonishing that Al Gore faced virtually no skeptical questions when he sat down with CBS's Katie Couric and NBC's Tom Brokaw to push for a $3 trillion conversion to 100% use of wind, solar and other renewable power sources by 2018.
On the July 17 CBS Evening News, Couric applauded how "Gore laid down a green gauntlet today," only fretting about whether "the political will is there to change the way we do business so dramatically in this country?" Couric's toughest question:
"You've set a 10-year deadline. Is that realistic?"
Yet in the set-up piece prior to Couric's interview, CBS's Nancy Cordes had already vouched for the realism of Gore's plan by seeking a comment from "clean energy advocate Tyson Slocum," a spokesman for the left-wing Public Citizen group (which Cordes declined to identify as liberal).
"It is very realistic," Slocum assured viewers.
For more, check the July 18 CyberAlert:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080718.asp#1
On NBC's Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw, at least, gently suggested to Gore that "what you have outlined, in fact, is a goal that may not be achievable." But Brokaw agreed with the Democrat's thrust, telling Gore: "I don't think anyone doubts that we have to make some profound changes in this country...and maybe even suffer some pain." Brokaw also proposed new taxes: "Should there be a surcharge on jet fuel, cost for private aviation, which is expanding exponentially in this country and it leaves a very large carbon footprint?"
Gore loved it:
"Fine by me. Sounds like a good idea."
Writing on his group's OpenMarket.org blog, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Myron Ebell added the context that eluded the big broadcast networks: "Utilities are having a hard time keeping up with population and demand growth, building every kind of power plant they can -- coal, natural gas, wind. Meeting all new demand in the next few decades just with renewables would be extremely difficult and expensive. Doing that, and replacing all current coal and gas power plants in ten years, is preposterous."
See:
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/07/17/gores-10-year-plan-to-save-the-planet/
Does Gore have an answer to such criticisms? We'll never know, because the networks never bothered to confront him with such pesky details.
People like Gore would have been dismissed as unthinking, jingoistic buffoons long ago, if not for this constant puffery and support from the media, who keeps acting as though he is making valid points. You have to wonder how long the American public is going to put up with such journalistic laziness and sloth presented on the screen.
Is it any wonder that these people's rating are falling and their shows getting cancelled time and again?
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http://www.mediaresearch.org
GORE SPEAKS, TV SWOONS OVER $3 TRILLION ENERGY MAKEOVER
by Rich Noyes
July 22, 2008
For someone offering up an incredibly expensive proposal that would radically alter the entire U.S. economy, it's astonishing that Al Gore faced virtually no skeptical questions when he sat down with CBS's Katie Couric and NBC's Tom Brokaw to push for a $3 trillion conversion to 100% use of wind, solar and other renewable power sources by 2018.
On the July 17 CBS Evening News, Couric applauded how "Gore laid down a green gauntlet today," only fretting about whether "the political will is there to change the way we do business so dramatically in this country?" Couric's toughest question:
"You've set a 10-year deadline. Is that realistic?"
Yet in the set-up piece prior to Couric's interview, CBS's Nancy Cordes had already vouched for the realism of Gore's plan by seeking a comment from "clean energy advocate Tyson Slocum," a spokesman for the left-wing Public Citizen group (which Cordes declined to identify as liberal).
"It is very realistic," Slocum assured viewers.
For more, check the July 18 CyberAlert:
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2008/cyb20080718.asp#1
On NBC's Meet the Press, Tom Brokaw, at least, gently suggested to Gore that "what you have outlined, in fact, is a goal that may not be achievable." But Brokaw agreed with the Democrat's thrust, telling Gore: "I don't think anyone doubts that we have to make some profound changes in this country...and maybe even suffer some pain." Brokaw also proposed new taxes: "Should there be a surcharge on jet fuel, cost for private aviation, which is expanding exponentially in this country and it leaves a very large carbon footprint?"
Gore loved it:
"Fine by me. Sounds like a good idea."
Writing on his group's OpenMarket.org blog, the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Myron Ebell added the context that eluded the big broadcast networks: "Utilities are having a hard time keeping up with population and demand growth, building every kind of power plant they can -- coal, natural gas, wind. Meeting all new demand in the next few decades just with renewables would be extremely difficult and expensive. Doing that, and replacing all current coal and gas power plants in ten years, is preposterous."
See:
http://www.openmarket.org/2008/07/17/gores-10-year-plan-to-save-the-planet/
Does Gore have an answer to such criticisms? We'll never know, because the networks never bothered to confront him with such pesky details.