If there was any doubt that Fox News is a right-wing propaganda machine, Scientific American editor Michael Moyer recently placed those doubts to rest.
Moyer was asked to discuss the future of science and technology on Fox & Friends.
With regard to the experience, Moyer wrote the following in a blog published by Scientific American:
"About the only interesting thing that the scientific community is sure will happen in the next 50 years is that climate change is going to get worse, and that we're going to have to deal with the impacts. So I put that as one of my talking points."
He then claimed that a producer of the show told him to not discuss climate change during the segment.
Moyer also stated this in his blog:
"I found the tone and topics of coverage while I was sitting in the green room this morning to be not something that I wanted to be a part of in the future. I didn't realize that the drumbeat of conservative propaganda was so ubiquitous on the show."
Of course, Fox News denied the claim, as they released the following statement to Business Insider:
"We invited Michael on for a segment on technological and scientific trends we can expect in the future. We worked closely with him and his team and there was never an issue on the topic of climate change. To say he was told specifically not to discuss it, would be false."
Moyer disputed that claim, however, as he contended that a Fox producer wrote him an email with the message, "Can we replace the climate change with something else?"
While this doesn't come as a surprise to me, I'm sure it does to Fox regulars (whom will likely take Fox's word over Moyer's). In a recent study, it showed that Fox News's coverage on climate change was accurate only 28% of the time last year. Sadly, that was four times the number from 2012, when Fox News was accurate on climate change just 7% of the time.
Fox producer: "Can we replace the climate change with something else?"
My response: "Can we replace Fox with something else? Like actual news?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/30/fox-news-climate-change-michael-moyer_n_5242147.html
Moyer was asked to discuss the future of science and technology on Fox & Friends.
With regard to the experience, Moyer wrote the following in a blog published by Scientific American:
"About the only interesting thing that the scientific community is sure will happen in the next 50 years is that climate change is going to get worse, and that we're going to have to deal with the impacts. So I put that as one of my talking points."
He then claimed that a producer of the show told him to not discuss climate change during the segment.
Moyer also stated this in his blog:
"I found the tone and topics of coverage while I was sitting in the green room this morning to be not something that I wanted to be a part of in the future. I didn't realize that the drumbeat of conservative propaganda was so ubiquitous on the show."
Of course, Fox News denied the claim, as they released the following statement to Business Insider:
"We invited Michael on for a segment on technological and scientific trends we can expect in the future. We worked closely with him and his team and there was never an issue on the topic of climate change. To say he was told specifically not to discuss it, would be false."
Moyer disputed that claim, however, as he contended that a Fox producer wrote him an email with the message, "Can we replace the climate change with something else?"
While this doesn't come as a surprise to me, I'm sure it does to Fox regulars (whom will likely take Fox's word over Moyer's). In a recent study, it showed that Fox News's coverage on climate change was accurate only 28% of the time last year. Sadly, that was four times the number from 2012, when Fox News was accurate on climate change just 7% of the time.
Fox producer: "Can we replace the climate change with something else?"
My response: "Can we replace Fox with something else? Like actual news?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/30/fox-news-climate-change-michael-moyer_n_5242147.html
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