WashingtonPost.com - Fox News on climate: Ignorant, manipulative -- or both?

Media Matters says it has uncovered a directive that Bill Sammon, Fox News's Washington bureau chief, sent to the network's reporters, commanding them to "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."

This reflects ignorance, ideological manipulation -- or both.

It would have been about as fair if Sammon had instructed Fox's reporters to "refrain from asserting that President Obama was born in America without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."