contact CNN about Glenn Beck Misinformation special on Global Warming

[blondie58]

Action Alert!
On May 2, CNN Headline News aired the special Exposed: The Climate of Fear. The program was hosted by Glenn Beck, whose long history of factual distortions on global warming has been well documented by Media Matters.

Use the following contact information to tell CNN that this issue is too important to get the facts wrong and mislead the American people. Eight of the ten people on this program have ties to the energy companies, have already disputed global warming- or both. It is outrageous to me that CNN, once known as the most trusted name in news, would go this far.

CNN
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Atlanta, GA 30303
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The sad part of this is that the average American viewer will take it at its word and not question it.

[louis-t]

1. I still don't know what the motivation would be to lie about it.

Why claim there's global warming if there's not? What would Gore or anyone hope to gain? We know what corporatists have to gain from denying.

[trotsky]

2. Surely you can't tell me you haven't heard of the LAVISH lifestyles

of university researchers living large on those HUGE government grants?!? LOL

[louis-t]

3. Oh yeah, they live next door to Reagan's welfare queens.

Oy vey.

[trotsky]

4. Seriously, though, I had a Repuke give me that answer.

I asked him your question - what could possibly be a reason to lie and say global warming is occurring when it isn't?

His straight-faced answer was the enormous government grants they would get. You know, compared to the tiny profits of the oil companies and their volunteer scientists...

How can we reason with these people!?!?

[november3rd]

5. Thanks. This is a good alert.

Your info is comprehensive and after reading it I called CNN and spoke to somebody live. I told them there were misleading, distorted, and untruthful misstatements, and that it was a disgrace for CNN to be involved in such amateurish and ignorant partisanship.

[yurbud]

6. maybe they could just put an infomercial disclaimer in front of it.