The global warming guerrillas

[kiwistonewall]

Excellent piece:

Matt Ridley salutes the bloggers who changed the climate debate. While most of Fleet Street kowtowed to the green lobby, online amateurs uncovered the spin and deception that finally cracked the consensus

Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. It was amateur bloggers who scented the exaggerations, distortions and corruptions in the climate establishment; whereas newspaper reporters, even after the scandal broke, played poodle to their sources.

www.spectator.co.uk/spectator/thisweek/5749853/the-global-warming-guerrillas.thtml

[tobyglyn]

That was indeed - thanks!

[nautonnier]

The article certainly puts the 'courageous investigative' media reporters into a new light:

"By contrast, it has so far attracted little attention that the leaked emails of Climategate include messages from reporters obsequiously seeking ammunition against the sceptics. Other emails have shown reporters meekly changing headlines to suit green activists, or being threatened with ostracism for even reporting the existence of a sceptical angle: ‘Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,’ one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. ‘I sense that you are about to experience the “Big Cutoff” from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.’"

Literally a threat of excommunication from The Church?

[hunter]

The sad truth is that the AGW social movement corrupted journalism rather badly.

[scpg02]

Feb 8, 2010 11:36:13 GMT nautonnier said:

The article certainly puts the 'courageous investigative' media reporters into a new light:

"By contrast, it has so far attracted little attention that the leaked emails of Climategate include messages from reporters obsequiously seeking ammunition against the sceptics. Other emails have shown reporters meekly changing headlines to suit green activists, or being threatened with ostracism for even reporting the existence of a sceptical angle: ‘Your reportage is very worrisome to most climate scientists,’ one normally alarmist reporter was told last year when he slipped briefly off message. ‘I sense that you are about to experience the “Big Cutoff” from those of us who believe we can no longer trust you, me included.’"

Literally a threat of excommunication from The Church?

That's a good way of putting it.

[scpg02]

Feb 8, 2010 14:14:26 GMT hunter said:

The sad truth is that the AGW social movement corrupted journalism rather badly.

Left is left. No corruption needed.