“ | NEWSWEEK magazine, which tells us in a recent edition about a
"well-funded," global-warming "denial machine," is itself something of
a trashing machine, a journalistic pretender that mistakes smear for
substance.
The stumbling, bumbling exercise in ad hominem
McCarthyism takes it as an unchallengeable truth that global warming is
a human-induced catastrophe that could be readily prevented, and
concludes there is just one way to explain the "naysayers" to this holy
writ: They are part of a "well-coordinated," heavily financed scheme
cooked up by self-serving corporate interests to dupe the public and
confuse or buy off politicians.
The article not only fails to
make so sweeping a case, but skips over a fact that the rawest newsroom
rookie should have picked up - namely, that the Chicken Littles have
outspent the cited think tanks and other groups in trying to inflict
everyone with the willies, scientific exactitude be hanged.
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