Fox News turns a red herring into red meat
My first “Media Mayhem” column for the Mother Nature Network:
OK. Take a few deep breaths. Don’t get as worked up about these things as I do: This is how cable news coverage of the climate change bill that’s working its way through Congress will go for the next two months — at least in some media quarters.
It will not be about facts. It will not be about what’s good for the Earth. And it often won’t even be about the legislation’s most significant issues.
It will be about whatever spin, half-truth, or fiction works its way from politicians and interest groups onto a medium mainly interested in the emotion it can wring from a story. It will activate a plaintive voice inside you that cries, “Hey, guys. Wait a second. I thought you were journalists. You weren’t supposed to just make things up, were you?”
Here’s how this system works …
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