Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Viewer’s guide to rooting out propaganda in future CBC climate coverage

Here.

Excerpt:
Countering today’s hysteria is a huge well of common sense in people. This was apparent even in the Fifth Estate’s own discussion group. While seven of the first ten comments from the public supported The Denial Machine, support dropped quickly among the 40 comments that came in until only two of the last ten comments supported the programme. Perhaps not surprisingly, the CBC then quickly closed the discussion group, blocking any further contributions from the public even though the show had last been broadcast the night before and the discussion board had been open only eight days (other programme discussions have been left open for months on Fifth Estate Web pages). Even the postings that were allowed by the network clearly demonstrated a growing trend in Canada – the public are becoming suspicions that they are being duped as science increasingly demonstrates that the thesis of human-caused climate catastrophe is simply wrong.

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