The Age of Catastrophic Thinking : Azure - Ideas for the Jewish Nation

While catastrophic thinking has become ubiquitous on any number of issues, it is nowhere more apparent than on the subject of the environment, especially the topic of global warming. Of course, this appears most explicitly among the various groups specifically dedicated to the cause of environmentalism, but the sentiment has already become a worldwide phenomenon. Perhaps its most famous exponent, former United States vice president Al Gore, used explicitly apocalyptic language to describe the problem in his Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth.

Glenn Beck KOs Van Jones: The Future of Media and Politics? | NewsBusters.org

When did it become the role of news outlets to defend our political leaders and shelter them from scrutiny?