As Sinclair Broadcast Group moves closer to taking over Tribune Media and expanding its reach into some of America’s major urban cores, the mainstream media is doing its part to point out the problems with allowing a conservative media outlet so much of a presence. The latest is a story of a Lynchburg, Va., TV […]
As coverage of the confirmation hearings of Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R.-Okla., President Trump’s pick to lead NASA, indicates, the mainstream media continues to confuse acceptance of its worldview of environmental issues with qualifications for top government jobs. Salon’s Keith Spencer summed up the view: “Say what you will about President Trump, but when it comes […]
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt is draining his part of the swamp, and the mainstream media is not happy about it. The Washington Post reported Monday that Pruitt plans to reform the agency’s key advisory group by getting rid of scientists who have received grants from the EPA and replacing them with industry experts and government […]
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced Monday the Trump administration planned to take formal steps to repeal a key environmental regulation that was designed to put coal plants out of business. Upon reporting, though, the mainstream media’s response was not about the shortcomings of the plan itself. It was not about the 28 states’ attorneys general […]
A study found that more ice formed in the Arctic in 2017 than in all but four of the last 37 years, challenging the recent media narrative that the earth is warming and seas are rising because of manmade activity. Instead of reporting this study, media outlets focused on another report that more closely matched […]
Now that Florida and South Texas are on the road to recovery from their hurricanes, talk has turned to the role global warming played in producing these record-setting storms. In particular, what is the Trump administration doing to prevent these storms and why isn’t it doing more? Those actually were the questions Don Lemon of […]
Mainstream media and Hollywood liberals have capitalized on Hurricanes Harvey and Irma this week to voice concern over and to blame global warming for the devastation in Texas and Florida. The Nation wrote: “To refuse to act against global warming … is murder” and “Climate denialism is literally killing us.” Actress Jennifer Lawrence said it […]
On Wednesday, the Washington Post returned to a familiar figure when it profiled Myron Ebell and how he and his allies convinced the Trump administration to follow through on its promise to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords. Ebell is the longtime director of energy and environmental policy for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He headed […]
The New York Times was embarrassed when it had claimed a climate change report draft was an exclusive to the newspaper, but scientists who wrote it said it was available since January 2017. What did the Times’ correction say? An article on Tuesday about a sweeping federal climate change report referred incorrectly to the availability […]
Al Gore’s newest movie, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, the sequel to his 2006 Academy Award- winning An Inconvenient Truth, has flopped at the box office, but you wouldn’t know it if you were following the liberal media because they ignored the dismal results. In its first full week of release, the film finished […]