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Fox News Gives Science Lesson on Why Humans Aren’t Causing Global Warming

6:53 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, media, television, united states by TreeHugger

fox-co2-cant-cause-warming.jpg Screen grab via Media Matters As of late, Fox News has been particularly egregious in it's never-ending quest to sew doubt about the unequivocal scientific consensus that humans are causing the climate to warm -- see the SpongeBob SquarePants debacle, the moon volcano proof, the heat index nonsense, the list goes on. But this one takes the cake: ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Happy 100th Birthday Marshall McLuhan

7:59 pm in electronics, media by TreeHugger

The Ballad of Marshall Mcluhan from Randall Acronym on Vimeo.

It is the Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday today. In the video above, the very funny Vestibules describes the Marshall as having "the best insight into mass media, this side of the Rio Grande." The great media theorist coined the phrase "global village", "the medium is the message, and beloved of treehuggers everywhere, "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Did News of the World Hack into Climate Scientists’ Emails?

2:39 pm in Business & Politics, england, media, newspapers by TreeHugger

news-world-email-hacking-climate.jpg Image: ssoosay via Flickr/CC BY The scandal du jour is unquestionably the phone-hacking debacle surrounding Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid -- which, until it was canned due to allegations of myriad criminal deeds, was England's top-selling newspaper. We now know that the paper's reporters and editors illegally intercepted some 4,000 voice messages and emails of celebrities, crime victims, policemen, and others, and paid off top officials in the Scotland Yard to keep the whole thing quiet. Over at Cli...Read the full story on TreeHugger

How Fox News Manufactures, Spreads Anti-Climate Talking Points

3:29 pm in Business & Politics, global climate change, media, television by TreeHugger

via internet business politics One of the primary reasons that many Americans remain confused about climate change is that the cable news network that they get their news from actively works to keep them confused. It's hardly a secret that Fox News sets and follows a politically motivated agenda -- convincing folks climate change is a hoax is just one of its planks. But to see just how finely tuned the spin machine is, check out this Rolling Stone slide show that reveals how Fox creates, pushes, and disseminates a few key talking points every day....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Huffpo Comes To Canada, Looks More Green Than Orange

12:53 pm in canada, media, News by TreeHugger

huffpo-canada.jpg The Huffington Post introduces a Canadian edition with the back of Opposition Leader Jack Layton's head and a headline ORANGE SHADOW, but if you look at their list of local bloggers, it's really green, at least at launch. Right at the top you have David Suzuki on our favourite subject, writing Burn Calories, Not Gas: Ride a Bike ...Read the full story on TreeHugger