Comments on: ABC relies on the inanity defense to reject Gore’s-truth telling ad

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:38:34 +0000

debates are pretty worthless for establishing anything beyond who has the superior debating skills.

By: Independent

Independent — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:09:47 +0000

Why won’t ABC have a debate by top climatologist and meteorologist on global warming and let the public decide. How do we know green politics isn’t just another money making scheme? Let’s have some real discussion!

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:40:41 +0000

Green politics won’t stop drilling. The only thing that will stop the drilling is when energy produced and energy expended stop making corporate sense.

So ANWR will be drilled and offshore will too. And tar sands will be heavily developed over the next 20 years.

It’s not negative thinking. Just reality.

By: llewelly

llewelly — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:58:32 +0000

It’s striking, that after over two decades, large swathes of the media continue play a fundamentally dishonest, and extremely dangerous role in fomenting delusion about the state of the climate, and what we can do about it.

By: Lamont

Lamont — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:33:09 +0000

yeah, i’m very sick of that “the earth has electromagnetic fields, and we can use them to drill, drill, drill” ad that constantly runs on BBC America.

tell me about leaving the carbon in the ground, don’t tell me about more clever ways to dig it up.

By: TomG

TomG — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:38:56 +0000

I find it odd that ABC would not provide CJR a copy of their advertising guidelines.
Shouldn’t the guidelines be readily available?
Is somebody high up in the ABC foodchain playing blocker?
Until perhaps sometime in November?

By: john

john — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:32:58 +0000

This whole “human ingenuity” slant that several large petro-chemical and oil companies are taking is ingenuous — in a Dr. No kind of way.

It makes two powerful arguments at once: 1)We are them; and 2) resources are inexhaustible — because we are the ultimate resource.

Of course, number 2 is only true if we are smart enough to quit doing things that destroy humanity — and these ads are designed to stop us from doing exactly that.

Corporations have created a new brand of evil — mechanistic, blind and devoid of malicious intent — but evil still.

ABC, in rejecting an ad that takes on this evil, is yet another example of it.