Fox News Director Demanded Bias in Climate Coverage

Wed, 2010-12-15 11:58Richard Littlemore
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Fox News Director Demanded Bias in Climate Coverage

We're "shocked" of course, but Media Matters has reported a leaked Fox News memo, quoting Fox Washington managing editor Bill Sammon scolding reporter Wendell Groler and on-air host Jon Scott for discussing actual evidence of climate change without inserting Fox bias into their report.

"...we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question," Sammon wrote.

Sammon went on to say, "It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies." The "notion" on this occasion was an objective measurement of Earth's global temperature.

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Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox 'conspiracy' is that 'liberals' stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did they realize, apparently, that the man responsible for the partisan polarization over the terminology of climate change vs. global warming is none other than FOX News contributor Frank Luntz...

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