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- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!truffula!cls
- From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
- Subject: Re: George F. Will on Gore's environmental book
- Organization: Save the Humans!
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 05:53:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.055305.16201@truffula.sj.ca.us>
- Summary: straight from the White House machine
- Keywords: Gore, environment, George Will
- References: <67603@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Lines: 37
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- In article <67603@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7122b@prism.gatech.EDU (R. Mandock) writes:
- >
- >"Al Gore's Environmentalism a Caricature of Contemporary Liberalism"
- > by George F. Will
- > The Atlanta Journal
-
- And a zillion other papers. Will is the most widely syndicated columnist
- in the USA, with twice as many placements as his closest competitor.
-
- >... Clearly Al Gore's book "Earth in the
- >Balance" is wastebasket-worthy.
-
- And so on. George Will has become the most reliable spokesperson
- for the Bush Administration in all the mass media. Lee Atwater once
- boasted that his greatest accomplishment was placing fax machines in
- the offices of the nation's fifty most widely read "journalists"
- so that the Reagan White House could more easily and thoroughly
- determine what the story of the day would be. Will got the first one.
- It's no surprise the thing's still working.
-
- To better understand how this kind of thing happens, take a look at
- _Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media_ by
- Martin E. Lee and Norman Solomon, ISBN 0-8184-0561-9, or a few issues of
- _EXTRA!_, the journal (ISSN 0895-2310) of the non-profit Fairness and
- Accuracy in Reporting. They're at 130 West 25th Street, New York,
- NY 10001 (212)633-6700.
-
- Senator Gore's _Earth in the Balance_ begins with an overview of the
- current threats to human survival as understood by the scientific
- community. After spending a few pages slamming the Deep Ecologists it
- proceeds into a thoughtful analysis of modern culture as a
- dysfunctional system. Hardly the superficial whining of a mainstream
- liberal. Not a typical campaign book either. Take a look and decide
- for yourself if Will's misrepresented it.
-
-
- Cameron Spitzer in San Jose, Ca. cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
-