Democrats pressure the media to provide more global warming propaganda

  I first wrote about this story back on January 15th, but it is back in the news so I must write about it once again. Democrats, frustrated with the lack of media coverage regarding global warming, have sent a letter to several mainstream media outlets urging them to provide the public with more global warming propaganda.

According to Sanders, “It is beyond my comprehension… that their shows have discussed climate change in 2012, collectively, for all of eight minutes.” Sanders is using liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America as his source. MMfA’s data indicates that, in 2009, the Sunday shows covered climate change topics for over an hour, and in 2012, Sunday show coverage dropped to less than eight minutes on climate change.

Sanders and his colleagues plan to send the letter because, according to Sanders, Sunday TV coverage is not proportional to the gravity of the situation. “What [the networks] are saying is, climate change is a non-important issue, it is an irrelevant issue, and yet the scientific community tells us that it is the greatest crisis facing this planet,” he said.

  Rather than wasting my time rewriting what I have already written I have decided to copy and paste my original post for your viewing pleasure. Here is is:

Much to the chagrin of the left and of the global warming alarmists (but I repeat myself) more and more people are beginning to question the settled science of the climate change agenda. It started a few years ago with Climategate when scientists were caught fudging the numbers in order to hide the decline, but the recent cold snap coupled with the story of the ship that sailed to the Antarctic to prove the ice was melting only to get stuck in the non-existent ice has many people openly mocking and laughing at the whole notion the earth is warming. Support for cap and trade legislation is at an all time low.

  This is not sitting well with those in the establishment who still wish to push Barack Obama’s radical cap and trade agenda, but what are they to do when nobody takes them serious any more?

   You send a letter to the television networks and urge the Sunday shows to propagandize the issue for you and that is just what Bernie Sanders, and several others, have planned.

“It is beyond my comprehension that you have ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, that their Sunday shows have discussed climate change in 2012, collectively, for all of eight minutes,” Sanders said, citing analysis by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America.

Sanders mentioned the letter during a press conference with most other members of Senate Democrats’ new, 19-member Climate Action Task Force, and he elaborated on it in a brief interview afterward.

“Sunday news shows are obviously important because they talk to millions of people, but they go beyond that by helping to define what the establishment considers to be important and what is often discussed during the rest of the week,” he said. [emphasis mine]

“What [the networks] are saying is, climate change is a non-important issue, it is an irrelevant issue, and yet the scientific community tells us that it is the greatest crisis facing this planet,” he said.

  Look at the part of the quote that I highlighted for that one sentence tells us everything we need to know about the mainstream media and how it is used by politicians to promote their propaganda.  The “media helps to define what the establishment” thinks is important–not what is important, but what the establishment thinks is important–and so now the establishment is going to urge the mainstream media to get on board with the cap and trade agenda in an attempt to get it back on track.

  This of course explains why Susan Rice was sent to all the Sunday talk shows after the Benghazi attack; they wanted to set the narrative in motion and new the media would follow in line without question, and that is what they are attempting to do here as well. Is it any wonder why so many people consider today’s mainstream media to be nothing more than the fourth branch of the Federal government?