By David L. Brown
We have written much about the activities of climate change naysayers, many of them in actuality puppets whose strings are pulled by ExxonMobil and the like. The mainstream press generally takes a “balanced” approach to reporting on the subject, in which the opinions of climate scientists (who are almost unanimously convinced of the real threat of global warming) are diluted through the words and writings of those running dogs of Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Ag and all their associates.
So today at the grocery store I noticed that the current issue of Newsweek features an “expose” of the climate change coverup that has been bankrolled by self-interested corporations. Was I happy? Was I impressed at their courageous and forthright reportage? Well, frankly no. In fact, I was outraged.
Why? Well, here is the magazine’s cover as it appears this week:
OK, do you start to see why this struck me the wrong way? To the casual glance of tens of millions of Americans as they stand in checkout lines or wander past magazine racks the screaming 60 point headline, to which their eyes are drawn like magnets by the flaming image of the Sun, states exactly what ExxonMobil would like us all to think: “Global Warming Is A Hoax.”
Only those who notice the asterisk and lean close can read the little “footnote” in the lower left of the cover, which begins to put the proper perspective on the story — and even that doesn’t come right out and state that the “naysayers” in question are wrong. To get that message loud and clear you have to actually read the in-depth article inside.