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Saturday, September 22, 2012

'Primetime Fox News And WSJ Editorial Climate Coverage Mostly Wrong'


by Mark Thoma, Economist's View, September 21, 2012

Climate scientists document News Corporation's distortions on climate change:
Brenda Ekwurzel is a climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. She announced in New York City on September 21st the results of an analysis of climate change coverage at two major properties of the News Corporation, the Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journal.
“What we found in our analysis was that a staggering 93% of all occurrences in the last 6 months in the prime time news of Fox News were misleading occurrences of climate science. Okay, for the Wall Street Journal opinion section in the last year, we found a surprising 81% of the occurrences were misleading. And of the accurate ones, these were all letters to the editor that were submitted in response to misrepresentations in editorials or other letters. So, a broad swath of News Corporation viewers and readership are being misled about the science.”

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/09/primetime-fox-news-and-wsj-editorial-climate-coverage-mostly-wrong.html

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