Climategate media coverage

The Climategate media coverage refers to the journalistic methods used by the the Mainstream media to deceive the public from learning more specific details about the Climategate scandal, and the censorship practices used by various sources for information both nationally and world wide. As details emerged from the scandal—the revealed data, e-mails and manipulated code sets—Climategate media coverage in the news was dismal, particularly from the Mainstream media, but also assisted by the liberal Wikipedia, which tried to hide the story by calling it the "Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident." As details emerged from the Climategate scandal, Climatic Research Unit (CRU) scientists at the University of East Anglia were exposed, but the liberal media attempted to bury the story and discount it as the work of computer hackers illegally stealing data. Climategate media coverage was a profoundly bizarre situation, and it showed just how bias the liberal media has become in order to advance their environmental agenda, all of which are problems that have been uncovered from the Climategate scandal.

Unreported

Perhaps the MSM felt that by ignoring Climategate entirely that it would have just gone away. However, just as the case was during the Tea Party Movement, notably during the Tax Day Tea Party, bloggers and the readers of the global warming stories kept bringing up the inconvenient truth of Climategate by mentioning the scandal "over and over and over again."

Fourteen days after the story broke worldwide, the Climategate scandal had been mentioned by ABC, CBS and NBC a total of zero times. Because the story would have affected Cap and trade legislation, the White House, in their daily collusion with liberal media sources, may have told news channels to bury the story. From NewsBusters, it was reported that Glenn Beck used the news source to, "[D]emonstrate that much as in their boycott of the ACORN scandal and green jobs czar Van Jones's peculiar associations, the television press are once again hiding important information from the public hoping it will all just go away."

First mainstream media report

The first liberal media source to openly discuss Climategate on American television was during a segment on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a slapstick entertainment news program. After more than two weeks into the unfolding Climategate scandal, CBS evening news finally reported on Climategate. However, in-line with some search-engines odd display of confusion as to what the search query for "Climategate" is asking for, CBS evening news called the scandal "Climate Gate," a reference to the name Google suggested to searchers as a spin on the real name, "Climategate." CBS also provided the subtitle, "Leaked E-Mails Provide Climate Change Deniers Ammunition Near Beginning of Global Summit."

Bias in Wikipedia

The liberal Wikipedia has cited various references attempting to contend against the facts uncovered from the Climategate scandal, and the bias opinion from Wikipedia editors were quickly revealed as they claimed that the e-mail files were illegally stolen by computer hackers, despite repeated requests for the data files under the FOIA and regardless of the fact that, according to Wikipedia Talk Page editors, "Climategate is the clear public consensus." Though unreported by the MSM and at the same time censored by liberal Wikipedia, there is strong evidence to suggest the data was released by a fellow employee, a "whistle blower" within the Climatic Research Unit.

• There was no "security breach" at CRU that "stole" these files
• The files appear genuine and to have been prepared by CRU staff, not edited by malicious hackers
• The information was accidentally or deliberately released by CRU staff
• Selection criteria appears to be compliance with an or several FOIA request(s)

The U.K. Daily Mail pointed out the following:

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The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud.

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Google

It was reported that, despite Climategate related pages being the most-read articles of the Telegraph’s entire online operation, mysteriously when attempting to search using Google – it didn't feature links related to Climategate. James Delingpole from the Telegraph noted, "Instead, the top-featured item is a blogger pushing Al Gore’s AGW agenda. Perhaps there’s nothing sinister in this. Perhaps some Google-savvy reader can enlighten me." Google.com has been accused before of interfering with its own search algorithms in order to interfere with searches for material deemed "not politically correct." With the rising search popularity for the query "Climategate," or "Climategate scandal," and with attempted "Climate-Gate" keywords from about 26,400,000 articles on the Web, Google’s "autosuggestion" function in the search box is not suggesting "climategate." But rather, instead, Google and other search engines also began to suggest to Web searchers if they meant to search for "Climate Gate" rather than the intended query, "Climategate" or otherwise "Climategate scandal."

Al Gore's position on Google's senior advisory board is likely bearing responsibility; in Gore's bio he says:

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A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

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According to NewsBusters, Al Gore has done some "advising" of Google’s search quality in the past. There is some history between Google and Al Gore that has some bearing on the current situation. In the case of "Climategate," Mr. Gore's ability to continue his current speaking engagements might be hampered. Thus, there could well be a motive for him doing some "advising" in this case. A phone call might be all it took.