This columnist today takes the “Global Warming Swindle” film to task.
Choice quotes:
Certainly, there is considerable pressure to offer a balanced presentation of controversial issues. This is nowhere more apparent than in the case of global warming. Witness Mike Chernoff’s recent attempt to get copies of The Great Global Warming Swindle into high school classrooms to “balance” Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and his statement that “without balanced information on a subject, an unbiased decision is difficult.”
And,
Many reasons for this have been identified: In our increasingly partisan era, journalists are ultra-sensitive to accusations of bias, so they ensure balance to ward off such allegations; some journalists don’t have the time – and some are too lazy – to conduct a thorough investigation of an issue, so it’s easier to just present competing opinions; and some journalists don’t have the expertise to filter through various opinions and determine which ones are based on solid evidence.”
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