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ok, i read this article at work today. its about time magazine and how they made a special global warming issue. on the cover they imposed a tree in place of the US flag in the famous iwo jima photo to raise awareness about global warming (oops, my bad... i mean global climate change...). now, nevermind the photoshopping, nevermind the whole global warming thing. forget your opinion on everything related to it. there is one quote in the article from managing editor Richard Stengel that deserves being mentioned.

"I think since I've been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that's needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things," Stengel said. "You can't always just say 'on the one hand, on the other' and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We're experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so."

well, there you have it. the managing editor at time magazine thinks the american people cant make their own decisions. we should just trust the media. so whatever they think is kosher, must be.

time magazine can go fuck themselves.

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080417171532.aspx

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"You can't always just say 'on the one hand, on the other' and you decide.
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Perhaps if journalists felt the need to call out blatant lies we would not be in half the messes we are in today.
 
Well, it's Time magazine, I don't really expect anything different...did you? And a big LOL on journalists being experts on global warming.
 
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well, there you have it. the managing editor at time magazine thinks the american people cant make their own decisions. we should just trust the media. so whatever they think is kosher, must be.

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That's not what he said at all.
 
Bleh. Global Warming is a fad just like Global Cooling in the 70's.

Anyways if Global Warming is causing us here in California to get this cooler weather longer into the year then I need to buy a fleet of H1's to parade around.
 
That's fine as long as they're transparent about it. Journalists, like anyone else are free to express their own opinions as long as they present it that way. It's another thing when the news media portrays itself as "objective" but clearly has an agenda like Fox News for the conservative side and pretty much most other mainstream media for the liberal side.
 
I think the cover is terrible. Some things, like the Iwo Jima memorial, should be left alone instead of being coopted into every crusade out there.

How would ppl feel if they used a pic of the twin towers in a similar vein? Exactly.
 
[quote name='camoor']How would ppl feel if they used a pic of the twin towers in a similar vein? Exactly.[/quote]

I'll let you know in 10 years or so when the ads start rolling out... ;)
 
the picture was a fake, ie not the original people who put it up there, and a propaganda tool in the first place, and I am like 80% sure I have seen the flag being raised to symbolize someone getting erection in the movie or cartoon. People need to chill. It not like its a picture from pearl harbor getting bombed
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']the picture was a fake, ie not the original people who put it up there, and a propaganda tool in the first place, and I am like 80% sure I have seen the flag being raised to symbolize someone getting erection in the movie or cartoon. People need to chill. It not like its a picture from pearl harbor getting bombed[/quote]

27,909 marines were killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima. It's absolutely ridiculous to compare that to a policy position on global warming.
 
[quote name='camoor']27,909 marines were killed in the Battle of Iwo Jima. It's absolutely ridiculous to compare that to a policy position on global warming.[/quote]



how many people will be killed through drought, food shortages, or other side effects of global warming?
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']how many people will be killed through drought, food shortages, or other side effects of global warming?[/QUOTE]

How many people will be killed by their own corrupt dictators, denied food by the same and told it was because the US backed out of Kyoto?

The impacts of global warming, or, climate change cannot be demonstrated with absolute certainty, yet it's portrayed as a foregone conclusion by these "media types" as the commandments from god to Moses.

While global warming as a phenomenon may indeed exist, as a result of carbon dioxide or any other gas in the atmosphere, correlating it to human production is also uncertain, yet painted as a purely human initiated transgression against nature as if the truth has been handed to them by god himself.

Then we are bombarded with "solutions" to the problem we are accused of creating in the form of paying penalties for overproduction to the countries that under-produce. Conservation and cutbacks are hailed as the right thing to do in this crisis when the "experts" already believe full well that the only real solution is the elimination of human footprints from the earth altogether. And even that wouldn't stop the warming process.

So, tricking us into believing that the process can be reversed is the real blasphemy here. Instead of formulating a plan to deal with the coming 1-5 degree increase over the next 50-100 years that may or may not happen, we are being told to serve punishment for previous behavior and to retard future behavior for the false promise of hope that the problem will go away and the climate change will reverse itself.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']how many people will be killed through drought, food shortages, or other side effects of global warming?[/quote]

You really can't compare American marines risking their lives and fighting against fascism to a yuppie trying to decide if he's going to pay an extra 10 grand for a Prius.
 
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