The Media Blame Game
What do Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and liberal climate bloggers like Joe Romm all have in common? They are inveterate media bashers.
https://blog.extraface.com/2024/08/07/15g8oksihttps://www.clawscustomboxes.com/1yjnvi29uh Limbaugh has long railed against the MSM; he helped perfect the “liberal media” label into a favorite cudgel of conservatives and an effective meme. Limbaugh is also a slash & burn artist. His fusillades against the MSM are often accompanied by ad hominem attacks on individuals.
https://www.clawscustomboxes.com/ylmqx3ny8lhttps://merangue.com/8srpbj7 Joe Romm is fond of the same tactic. In this recent post, he casually slanders Roger Pielke Jr. as a “denier” while criticizing journalists. Romm knows full well that Pielke Jr. is not a “denier.” But because Pielke is often critical of statements by politicians and scientists that use global warming-related data in a misleading manner, Romm brands him a “denier.” Romm uses the same method to slime The Breakthrough Institute, because they advocate different approaches to combat climate change than Romm–and horrors (!), the media takes them seriously. It’s a twofer: flog the media and your enemies at the same time.
https://transculturalexchange.org/2a8k53z8 It’s a daily ritual for Romm to find a story (usually in The New York Times) that he detests for some perceived transgression against the climate change cause. To counter a recent story on the transportation costs of wind turbines, Romm makes this ridiculous statement in a post today:
https://eloquentgushing.com/6kar4jwoiMexico Xanax Buy Online As the NYT desperately searches for any bad news it can publish about clean energy, perhaps it’s time for them to change their motto from “all the news that’s fit to print” to “every silver lining has a cloud.”
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https://homeupgradespecialist.com/8yewwjg Though Sarah Palin uses the MSM as a personal foil, like many conservatives, Palin often refers to the MSM as some monolithic entity. Yesterday, in her departing words as Alaska governor, she said this:
https://foster2forever.com/2024/08/mtvjrvd7.html How about, in honor of the American soldier, you quit makin’ things up?
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https://udaan.org/8yqfqc8ds0r.php Never mind the odd and self-pitying conflation. There’s that broad brush tarring, the god-dang liberal media in cahoots.
https://aiohealthpro.com/59pt64rhttps://nedediciones.com/uncategorized/qyiblio14ro Similarly overwrought generalizations of the MSM (and its motives) have become a staple of climate bloggers like Romm and others. Where conservatives point to ideological bias, climate change advocates charge incompetence or slavish devotion to the principle of objectivity (“false balance”), or in this case, deliberate manufacturing of controversy:
https://mandikaye.com/blog/ja0ue8d Many media outlets are the arms merchants of the climate change information war. They are under economic siege from shifting reading and viewing habits, competition from the Internet, etc., so they are desperate to hold on to whatever eyeballs and advertisers they can. They’re so short sighted that many of them don’t think about the consequences for the world or future generations or even their own children.
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https://www.completerehabsolutions.com/blog/efrdzewiuj2 This notion that journalists should operate from a higher ethical plane than anyone else and subvert their professional and personal lives to the climate change cause is felt powerfully by some bloggers. Michael Tobis, who I have come to respect for his thoughtful commentary, loses me on this score. During the uproar over the New York Times magazine profile of Freeman Dyson, Tobis took this ethical responsibility argument to a bizzare conclusion:
https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/zndow5l3If Revkin thinks his family’s comfort is more important than the survival of the planet, if he doesn’t have the cojones to stand up to the publisher and say “kill the Dyson crap or I am out of here” or something like that, he is not doing us much good.
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https://eloquentgushing.com/cwyxlts8u Not doing us much good. That pretty much sums up the mindset of this new breed of media bashers on the left. If a journalist writes a story that is viewed as giving aid and comfort to them–the deniers–then you might as well be one of them. Or, if one of your colleagues writes such a story and you don’t quit in protest, then what good are you?
https://aiohealthpro.com/e9al8gos That narrow mindset–us and them–offers a convenient lens to view every perceived grievance. It’s the preferred lens of Limbaugh, Palin and their ilk. It’s now the preferred lens of progressive climate change bloggers too.
https://sugandhmalhotra.com/2024/08/07/6c43woq Dawidoff was criticized not for giving aid and comfort for “them” but for misleading his readers about the science. He even admitted that he didn’t care whether Dyson’s claims were true or not — he just typed them in. And you think this is just peachy.
https://nedediciones.com/uncategorized/n6qqsuso56https://www.psicologialaboral.net/2024/08/07/izpo7soi47 […] I’m starting to wonder when CP readers will grow tired of your shrillness and tune you out. In that vein, I wonder when your readers will realize how similar you are in style and tactics to Limbaugh and his crowd, as I argue here. […]
https://mandikaye.com/blog/l3oje4c8uhttps://solomedicalsupply.com/2024/08/07/q4j9lrbsog3 “Intelligence usually ceases to work when emotions are out of control.” — The Dalai Lama
https://oevenezolano.org/2024/08/hignruaphttps://www.completerehabsolutions.com/blog/frrsbv3 With Rush Limbaugh and Joe Romm alike, emotions all too frequently run out of control. To a greater or lesser degree, it is also true of many other people. Which is one major reason why the climate problem has proven nearly impossible to deal with in an honest and effective manner. Emotions run very high, and intelligence very low, when it comes to a subject that involves both our lifestyles, and our most cherished political and philosophical constructs.
https://solomedicalsupply.com/2024/08/07/sda7pzbneuUnlike Limbaugh, though, Romm understands that we are now in the “Anthropocene” epoch, and that it’s time to start acting accordingly. He also has useful things to say about climate change quite frequently. But in the end, he never fails to disappoint with his histrionics.
Discount Xanax Onlinehttps://transculturalexchange.org/h80pahti4sx The comparison to Limbaugh makes no sense, Tom. Even taking at face value your premise of an equivalency between their respective “histrionics,” Limbaugh does it in every segment and Romm doesn’t. I’m sure you could find some right-winger suitable for comparing Romm to, but Limbaugh doesn’t scan.
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