Ailes Gives In...Sort Of...
Well, whaddya know:
My point is that I saw the ad for this yesterday (?) and I was surprised. It seeemd so out of keeping. Now I know why we are going to be treated to a liberal topic being presented on the fair and balanced (ha) channel.
Fox News CEO Warms to Climate Change After Heat From Left -- 11/09/2005: "A Fox News Channel documentary on 'global warming,' set to air Sunday night, provides only the liberal take on the controversial issue and was approved after environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reportedly 'dragged' Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to a lecture by former Vice President Al Gore, 'kicking and screaming.'I admit that lately I've been watching Fox. I guess I have done enough verbal battle with wingers online to have become innoculated to the horror of their hype--now it's just plain entertaining (but I am a trained professional so you should not try it at home, alone anyway).
Clay Rawson, the Fox News Channel producer of the hour-long special titled 'The Heat Is On: The Case of Global Warming,' told Cybercast News Service Tuesday that the project 'was a little bit different for us.
'Often on Fox News Channel, we present both sides, according to our 'fair and balanced' motto, but this is the global warming story,' Rawson said. 'We do make it clear that this is one side of the issue through inclusion of a disclaimer,' he added. The documentary is said to ignore scientific skeptics who believe that human activity is not responsible for catastrophic climate change."
My point is that I saw the ad for this yesterday (?) and I was surprised. It seeemd so out of keeping. Now I know why we are going to be treated to a liberal topic being presented on the fair and balanced (ha) channel.
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