Al's Journal : Fox News Manipulates Climate Coverage

Today, Media Matters posted an alarming email sent by Bill Sammon, the Washington, DC, managing editor at Fox News. Sammon sent the email to Fox News producers on December 8, 2009 - just as the Climate Conference in Copenhagen was beginning:
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Fox News has consistently delivered false and misleading information to its viewers about the climate crisis. The leaked emails now suggest that this bias comes directly from the executives responsible for their news coverage.

COP15 was a critical moment in the fight against the climate crisis. It is unsurprising, yet still disturbing, that Fox would allow its political bias to infiltrate its news reporting about the conference. Over all the media’s coverage of climate issues has been atrocious. However, Fox seems determined to set the bar even lower.

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Isn't the latter exactly what journalists are not supposed to do? And isn't it what Fox's critics constantly, obsessively accuse it of doing? The usual meme is that Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and all their right-wing minions color the news with a conservative bent (that's putting it kindly - most of the Fox-haters are a bit more, er, animated), undermining the fairness and objectivity necessary for ethical and effective journalism.

But now the Fox-haters are livid that Sammon deliberately instructed his employees not to make inherently political judgments about scientific issues that are still the subject of hot debate among climate scientists themselves.