BBC News: (Bush and State Dept.) Manipulating the climate message

[Up2Late]

(I found this artical refered to over at the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch.org page: <http://www.prwatch.org/>
Monday, 8 October 2007, 10:31 GMT 11:31 UK

Manipulating the climate message

ANALYSIS
By Roger Harrabin
Environment analyst, BBC News

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...Media control

The whole Washington climate conference was a triumph of US media management. The opening public statements were made by President Bush, Dr Rice and Jim Connaughton, the head of White House climate strategy.

The only foreigner to speak publicly was Yvo de Boer who, as a representative of the UN, remained neutrally uncritical of his hosts. The two-day meeting then went into closed session.

Other delegates were furious at what they said were false leadership claims on climate by Mr Bush, but they were not given a platform to address the media.

When they emerged at the end of the conference on the Friday, they found that the co-ordinator, Mr Connaughton, had slipped out to brief the media half-an-hour before the end of the meeting, and the US TV networks had gone home....

(more at link) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7027887.stm>

[illinoisprogressive]

1. I heard alittle on this. Bush is such an arrogant pig.