Pressure Groups Shape Media Bias

Washington, DC (TLS). Pressure groups have found a way to gain access to news rooms all across the country, particularly those of the four major mainstream networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC). These groups raise millions of dollars each year from their partisan supporters, and thus, they exert an enormous amount of influence on the manner in which stories are presented.

Hints of this came to light last Fall as it was discovered that Democrat billionaire operative George Soros was meeting on a regular basis leading up to the November 2006 elections with network execs, editors, and reporters to discuss how news stories could be presented in such a manner as to help Democrats and hurt President Bush.

As it turns out, this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Scores of Leftist pressure groups are doing the same thing on a regular basis all across the country. In some instances, these special interest groups have convinced reporters that there is no need to present an alternative view, that in essence the spin of the story dictated by the special interest group is the ONLY valid point of view on the issues.

A perfect example is ABC News and its presentation of global warming. According to ABC News reporter Bill Blakemore, there is NO alternative point of view on the subject. And thus, 'striving for balance' would be ludicrous.

The problem is that it has not occurred to Mr. Blakemore that there is nowhere near a consensus in the scientific community concerning the CAUSE of global warming, as MIT professor Richard S. Lindzen so eloquently demonstrated yesterday in his eye-opening article on the flaws of present computer models in predicting future changes in climate.

Blakemore, however, would like for viewers to believe that there is no such dissension in the scientific community and that the contention that mankind caused global warming is an open and shut case and not subject to question.

Such is the influence of the special interest pressure groups that have gained access to news rooms. Their money and their lobbying influence have essentially bought off reporters, robbing viewers of having the issues reported to them in an objective fashion.

Read the full expose' here:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55085

MIT Scientist Questions Theories on Global Warming

Washington, DC (TLS). A respected scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who receives no research funding from energy companies, has dared to openly question the current popular theories on global warming.

Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, and he is taking on head-to-head the shrill voices of the politically correct by questioning their dogma on global warming.

Lindzen states that those who would lay the blame for global warming at the feet of human activity have very little credible ground to stand on when the entire history of the planet is objectively considered.

Further, Lindzen states that the computer models that make projections of what the climate will be like 50 years from now are the very same models that predict the weather from day to day, which are wrong 50% of the time at least.

Lindzen provides ample evidence that current computer model projections are highly flawed and that the earth has been in an overall pattern of warming ever since the end of the last Ice Age.

The Liberty Sphere feels that this is a refreshing addition to the debate on global warming, particularly in an era in which some scientists would mandate a sweeping change of lifestyle for humanity based on computer predictions that can't even get next week's forecast correct.

Read Lindzen's article here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/