Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was startled to find the press room at the U.N. Climate Change Conference eerily quiet this week. Rows and rows of computers sat unused. At last year's climate meeting in Copenhagen, the room was buzzing with hundreds of reporters.
Today, however, climate change seems to be a forgotten story. Thus, it was not surprising to find that the major TV broadcast networks in the United States seemed to be ignoring the conference. Democracy Now! producers reviewed the transcripts of last week's evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC in the United States, and found that the Cancún climate talks were not mentioned a single time.
Eventually, a lonely reporter ventured into the media center, giving Amy Goodman someone to talk to. Oliver Morton, the energy and environment editor for The Economist, talked about the difficulty of tracking down U.N. diplomats at the vast Moon Palace Hotel and compared it to his experience reporting from Copenhagen.
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But by all means keep scheduling these silly conferences (where do the bills for this go anyway?), producing movies to scare kids, move the "Doomsday Clock" a minute forward, and by all means more pictures of polar bears on tiny ice rafts in the middle of a vast empty ocean.
Who knew that a bunch of scientists could perpetrate the greatest fraud the world has ever known in the interest of "cash and power"? Of course, being a research scientist is far more lucrative than being an oil baron.
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Check most of "media" reporting and a great deal of attention is focused on not much news, AKA 90% of stories on 10% of issues", all it seems saying same thing in one way, or partisan or other about same issues.
But as nation dumbs down that is how we have drifted, only pay attention to single items, only read or hear what we support, a closed mind often a tiny mind and not wanting news that might disturb or require some thought.
Sorry but we are getting what most want from "news", and less ownership of "news" which is now been put on same, if not part of "entertainment" side of house, for depth and profit. Perhaps we should just drop press from 1St Amend as that free speech thing has been ridden into the ground by the money and manipulators, and "free speech in USA" well tell that fable to Wiki, as it same one we went at China (O speech there) about their censorship of Net, USA seen as world class hypocrite level about media, what it covers and "free speech", So warming, why bother, besides such concerns-fixes hurts profits, most to dumbed down to care
The reality is that once various government leaders returned to their respective countries, most especially the US, they were greeted by industry lobbyists holding bags of cash and were told to back off.
It is in man's nature to destroy itself.
No it is in man's greed to hope destruction is a economic process where top end escapes it. as USA is proving
If environmentalists, etc are gullible enough to think the United States Congress will consent to pay billions a years into a climate fund when we are going broke, then I have a unicorn farm, tended by leprechauns, in the Everglades to sell them. It can be reached via the Brooklyn Bridge, which I also have for sale.