Crucifix of the Church of Holy Gaia
A New York Times environmental reporter told Columbia University journalism students that presenting balance in an article about global warming is tantamount to perpetuating a lie.
“It is a lie to say that global warming poses no danger,” New York Times reporter Justin Gillis told students after a screening of the movie “Merchants of Doubt,” reports The Federalist.
“Journalists care about the truth—that’s my only care in life, to find the truth,” Gillis said. “To act as if the evidence is half and half is to tell a lie. I refuse to perpetuate that lie.”
“These people need to be labeled what they are: climate change deniers.” Gillis said, adding there’s a need to keep up the image of being impartial while still being an activist. “This is much like the abortion wars: what term you use signals what side you are on.”
Gillis told students he liked to use the word “deniers” for “people who oppose climate science,” and that these people should never be called “skeptics.”
FEMA to deny federal disaster assistance to any state whose governor denies global warming.
When a once-respected newspaper hires reporters who will only report their own beliefs in a particular religion, when federal agencies, expand completely beyond their mandate to force adherence to that same religion, either the country’s in trouble or the religionists are. Hope it’s the latter.
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