AP says: Our Pro-Gore story unbiased

[Buckeye_Nut]

Some of you may be aware of the hugely "PRO-Inconvient Truth" writeups done by the AP and other antique media outlets lovefest, but somebody apparently touched a nerve at the AP to elicit this in response to defend their allegedely "UNBIASED" reporting.

http://www.ap.org/response/response_062806a.html

You have to love the AP's expert self-selecting methodology -- surveying only 'Gore fan' scientists who selected themselves by rushing out to see the Gore slide show. The headline of the fluff piece in question read "SCIENTISTS PRAISE GORE’S MOVIE".

Could you imagine the AP writing an 'Intelligent Design' story using similar selection methodology for the content of the story?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH..... Media bias, anyone??

 

[cyberbri]

Spin. Spin. Spin.

We contacted more than 100 of the nation’s top climate researchers, including those who have been vocal skeptics of climate change theory. But we quoted only climate scientists who had actually viewed the documentary or read the book upon which it was based. As we learned in the course of our reporting – and as our story noted – most scientists have not seen the movie or read the book. And those who had seen it or read it were generally positive toward Gore’s scientific presentation.

Good work posting a link to the rebuttal by AP and not even the original story, which makes your claims even weaker.


Why don't you come over to the other climate change thread, where I posted the original AP story? http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?p=189733&posted=1#post189733


But even in the original story, there was this, which AP had to repeat because people ignored it on purpose and spun the story to suit their own agendas:

The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

TRANSLATION:

We contacted 100 scientists, but we had a hard time finding members of the scientific community who were willing to watch this liberal environmentalist Al Gore fake-u-mentary propaganda.

We at the AP chose to only quote those in our report who watched the film, because those who watched are the few who subscribe to and support the liberal AP position of Gloom & Doom.