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malaise

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Fri Aug 16, 2013, 07:49 PM Aug 2013

Chris Hayes documentary on Climate Change, Th ePolitics of Power starts at 8.oopm on

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The ReTHUG goons and Wingers are already bawling so it must be good.

Brian Lowry, a former TV critic for the Los Angeles Times who now writes for the trade paper Variety, slammed tonight's MSNBC eco-documentary by anchor and bicyclist Chris Hayes: “the editorial approach of this Chris Hayes-hosted hour continues an all-too-common trend of cable news preaching to the choir, where not a single dissenting voice is incorporated in any serious way.”

It's called "The Politics of Power." Lowry’s liberal enough that he conceded agreement with the notion that “there is no such thing, scientifically speaking, as a credible ‘dissenting voice’ on the subject of climate change.” But he’d like a program where Hayes invites the global-warming "denialists" and makes them squirm in the hot seat like a classic “60 Minutes” patsy:

The left always views resistance to the greens as a corporate conspiracy: “Hayes draws a direct comparison to the days when the tobacco lobby insisted nicotine is not addictive.”

Lowry noted the Hayes special includes “goofy-sounding” tape clips from Sen. James Inhofe and other critics, but no interviews. “Did MSNBC ask such officials, and nobody would participate? That’s certainly possible, given the way politicians now gravitate toward friendly media venues where they know they’ll be served up softball questions. But there’s no mention of anybody declining such a request,” he wrote.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/08/16/tv-critic-slams-msnbc-chris-hayes-climate-change-documentary-without-dis#ixzz2cBAGbMYX

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Chris Hayes documentary on Climate Change, Th ePolitics of Power starts at 8.oopm on (Original Post) malaise Aug 2013 OP
Drat! You beat me by a minute! Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #1
The more the merrier malaise Aug 2013 #2
's okay. I hate to be a duping dupe. Cooley Hurd Aug 2013 #3
LOL malaise Aug 2013 #4
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