Comments on: Bush Climate Summit: Greenwashing vs. Myth-Busting http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/28/bush-climate-summit-media-greenwashing/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:30:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Sean http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/28/bush-climate-summit-media-greenwashing/#comment-5890 Sean Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:04:46 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/28/bush-climate-summit-media-greenwashing/#comment-5890 As lazy as the AP story is, and even though it does have a wider distribution, its still worth noting that at least two key reporters were not greenwashed. Yesterday's Washington Post featured a Page-Three news analysis by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, finding that the administration was taking credit for U.S. emissions reductions which came about as a result of efforts they either had nothing to do with or actively opposed. The broader point of greenwashing remains-- take for instance the under-reported story of the U.S. Climate Action Report a couple of months back. But its also important to give credit where its due amidst that all, particularly where it reinforces a long-standing point (in the aforementioned Climate Action Report, the State Dept. cited as "helpful" the same emissions-cutting efforts in states that the administration has consistently opposed). As lazy as the AP story is, and even though it does have a wider distribution, its still worth noting that at least two key reporters were not greenwashed. Yesterday’s Washington Post featured a Page-Three news analysis by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, finding that the administration was taking credit for U.S. emissions reductions which came about as a result of efforts they either had nothing to do with or actively opposed.

The broader point of greenwashing remains– take for instance the under-reported story of the U.S. Climate Action Report a couple of months back. But its also important to give credit where its due amidst that all, particularly where it reinforces a long-standing point (in the aforementioned Climate Action Report, the State Dept. cited as “helpful” the same emissions-cutting efforts in states that the administration has consistently opposed).

]]> By: John http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/28/bush-climate-summit-media-greenwashing/#comment-5881 John Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:02:32 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2007/09/28/bush-climate-summit-media-greenwashing/#comment-5881 Joe: I think you have raised a critical issue here -- the role of the US press as a Bush enabler. And it's not just climate. With the exception of the McClatchy papers, US media has essentially acted as a White House printing press, printing up their lies and distrubuting them to an increasingly misinformed public. Hence Iraq, the credibility given to deniers of global warming for decades, the war against science etc. etc. But of all the issues they've enabled Bush on, global warming will have the most devastating and most lasting consequences. US media deserves to be scorned for their role in enabling this spolied frat rat to once again create the illusion of progress Joe:

I think you have raised a critical issue here — the role of the US press as a Bush enabler. And it’s not just climate. With the exception of the McClatchy papers, US media has essentially acted as a White House printing press, printing up their lies and distrubuting them to an increasingly misinformed public. Hence Iraq, the credibility given to deniers of global warming for decades, the war against science etc. etc.

But of all the issues they’ve enabled Bush on, global warming will have the most devastating and most lasting consequences. US media deserves to be scorned for their role in enabling this spolied frat rat to once again create the illusion of progress

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