{"id":2108,"date":"2009-12-04T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2009-12-04T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T00:28:31","slug":"abc-cbs-nbc-continue-to-ignore-climategate-email-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climate-change\/abc-cbs-nbc-continue-to-ignore-climategate-email-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC, CBS, NBC continue to ignore Climategate email scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The story has all the makings of a big news story and a world class whodunit. An illegal break in leads to charges of a global conspiracy. Some of the world\u2019s leading experts tackling one of the most pressing issues of our day and age are forced to launch a defense of themselves. Two experts fall under the specter of investigations<\/a>, Congress holds hearings into the affair, the Internet is set afire by one phrase – Climategate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For two weeks the story rages and grows in intensity and yet somehow, the big three television networks are missing in action. Whether the story is just smoke or if there is fire behind it, the hacking of one of the world\u2019s major climate research centers and the fallout from it is big news. By ignoring the story, ABC, CBS and NBC are highlighting the failures of themselves and much of the mainstream media.\u00a0 Perhaps more\u00a0importantly they are contributing to their own demise and irrelevance.<\/p>\n

Since the Climategate story broke two weeks ago today<\/a> on November 20th, the story has been covered by all cable news networks including FOX News and CNN. Through it all, the big three are nowhere to be found. Not one mention of the event has been made on the networks\u2019 morning or evening news broadcasts.<\/p>\n

The story has all the makings of a big news story and a world class whodunit. An illegal break in leads to charges of a global conspiracy. Some of the world\u2019s leading experts tackling one of the most pressing issues of our day and age are forced to launch a defense of themselves. Two experts fall under the specter of investigations<\/a>, Congress holds hearings into the affair, the Internet is set afire by one phrase – Climategate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For two weeks the story rages and grows in intensity and yet somehow, the big three television networks are missing in action. Whether the story is just smoke or if there is fire behind it, the hacking of one of the world\u2019s major climate research centers and the fallout from it is big news. By ignoring the story, ABC, CBS and NBC are highlighting the failures of themselves and much of the mainstream media.\u00a0 Perhaps more\u00a0importantly they are contributing to their own demise and irrelevance.<\/p>\n

Since the Climategate story broke two weeks ago today<\/a> on November 20th, the story has been covered by all cable news networks including FOX News and CNN. Through it all, the big three are nowhere to be found. Not one mention of the event has been made on the networks\u2019 morning or evening news broadcasts.<\/p>\n

\"There's<\/strong><\/a>Why are the networks ignoring the story?\u00a0 Who is covering the story in the networks’ absence?\u00a0 Get\u00a0all the details on the Climate Change\u00a0Examiner.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story has all the makings of a big news story and a world class whodunit. An illegal break in leads to charges of a global conspiracy. Some of the world\u2019s leading experts tackling one of the most pressing issues of our day and age are forced to launch a defense of themselves. Two experts … Continue reading ABC, CBS, NBC continue to ignore Climategate email scandal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[316,317,736,294,315,224,131,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2108\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}