Climategate media coverage

Main article : Climategate

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 Climategate, and the censorship practices used by various sources for information both nationally and from other nations around the world. As details emerged from the scandal—the revealed data, e-mails and manipulated code sets—Climategate news and media coverage was dismal, particularly from the Mainstream media, but also assisted by the liberal Wikipedia, which tried to downplay the real story by calling Climategate the "Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident."

See also: Climategate scandal

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.

Climategate cover-up

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 affects 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, "Demonstrate that much as in [the mainstream media's] 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."

Unreported and censored

The liberal Wikipedia has cited various references to contend against the facts uncovered with the Climategate scandal and has claimed that the e-mail files were illegally stolen by computer hackers, despite repeated requests for the data files under the FOIA. 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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Liberal media missed the mark

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 had passed since Climategate went public, CBS evening news finally reported on the scandal. However, CBS missed the mark and called the scandal by its Google created name: "Climate Gate" — and then CBS provided a weird subtitle in their news article that said, "Leaked E-Mails Provide Climate Change Deniers Ammunition Near Beginning of Global Summit." CBS News also aired a short video of an interview with Kevin Trenberth. Dr. Trenberth in the past has said this in one of the CRU e-mails:

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The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.

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Googlegate

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." Through December 3rd, despite the rising search popularity for the query "Climategate," or "Climategate scandal," and attempted "Climate-Gate" keywords from about 26,400,000 articles on the Web, Google’s "autosuggestion" function in the search box was 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." However, by December 7th, Google was correctly displaying "climate-gate" in the autosuggest list, which led to a full list of search results about this 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.

See Also

• Journalistic malpractice