The "FoxLeaks" continue at the liberal site Media Matters. The latest: An internal email reportedly distributed by Fox News Washington bureau chief Bill Sammon in December 2009, during the height of the "Climategate" furor. The memo suggests that reporters "refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed... without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question." Is this proof of top-down bias at FNC favoring climate-change "skepticism"? (Watch a discussion about the memo)
Can we stop pretending Fox is "balanced"? This memo is "horrific" even by Fox's "low standards of partisan pseudoscience," says Alex Pareene in Salon. What drove Sammon to urge "Fox's supposed 'straight news' anchors and reporters to adopt right-wing spin" this time? A report that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade on record. That's just a "true fact," accepted by even those "paid to deny" the "scientific consensus" on manmade global warming.
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