Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:22:33 PM
As a long time Rocky Mountain News subscriber, I became disenfranchised with the paper a few years back when
they merged operations with the Denver Post. Of course, they said they would have competeting news rooms, but it wasn't long before the Rocky started getting more liberal in their reporting.
Then Thursday, the owners of the Rocky
closed the doors on 150 years of Colorado reporting. It was sad but not unexpected. As with most newspapers in the country right now, they are struggling to survive in the internet age.
So, today I get my first copy of the Saturday Post. I will be canceling. The Post likes to get their news from the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. If I want to read those papers, I will go on line to read them...for free.
In today's Post, we have Paul Krugman from the NY Times telling us how great Obama's new budget is. Of course there is no conservative view in the paper.
Below Krugman's article is a Point-Countepoint piece on global warming. The first thing I look at is to see who the writers are. On the
Counterpoint side we have Graeme L. Stephens, an Atmosperic Climate Professor at Colorado State University.
On the Point side of the arguement we have Howard Spery...who lives in Evergreen. Okay...lets make an arguement here on global warming in the Saturday Post pitting a climatologist university professor against some guy who lives in Evergreen. Sounds fair.
Now don't get me wrong, Mr. Spery made a compelling arguement and wrote it well. My question would be why would they not have two university professor argue the different points? One good reason may be the difficulty in finding a university professor in Colorado that disagrees with man-made global warming.
The second reason would be that they don't want to give fair and balanced reporting to the issue, because the Post already knows that man-made global warming is real, they just need to come across as looking like the issue is debatable. Nevermind that there are at the minimum
500 climate scientists that disagree with that assumption.
So the next logical question would be, why did the Post not ask him to partake in the debate? It sure would have seemed more fair and balanced, don't you think?
Have I made my point here?
There is a line in my favorite movie,
The Outlaw Jose Wales, that fits well with the climate change debate, were actor Bill McKinney says "Don't pi** down my back and tell me it's rain'n!"