Fox editor urged climate [realism] - Keach Hagey - POLITICO.com

Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon sent an e-mail to staff last December offering guidance on how to handle the climate debate, three weeks after the Climategate scandal broke and in the midst of the Copenhagen climate summit.

“Given the controversy over the veracity of climate change data,” Sammon wrote, “we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question. It is not our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts, especially as this debate intensifies.”
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Ari Rabin-Havt, vice president for research and communications at Media Matters, said there were more [stolen?] e-mails coming from what he described as a “Fox source.”

“We have a number of reporters we’ve hired who are working for us, doing investigations on several things,” he said. “One of them was hired to build sources within Fox, among Fox employees, and has been working diligently to build the sources, and has had some success. That was how we have all these stories over time. It started with comments and off-the-record quotes, and now we have started getting hard documentary evidence that we felt was trustworthy enough to build on.”