Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Monday, February 22, 2010 12:53:25 PM
It’s been called the “biggest scientific scandal in history.” It has everything to earn Pulitzer consideration: lies and misconduct in high places, political implications, even massive financial transactions that may or may not be legitimate or even legal. It’s big news … as long as you read the Telegraph, the Guardian, the London Times, or even major Indian papers.
It’s no news at all if you read the U.S. mainstream media.
And he is correct. Type in any search engine the climate email scandal or the IPCC's admittance to several climate errors over the past few weeks, and the majority of the links you will get are from bloggers and European news agancies. N.Y Times, Washington Post, San Franscisco Chronicle; all silent.
Nothing to be surprised about, I guess. But this is part of the explanation behind the rapid fall of the main stream newspaper business. People have so many options for news now with the internet, including blog sites and international news, that when they see the big papers not reporting the news, it makes them look biased. And surprise...they are!
Of course, you already knew that...