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- Fox: Fanning Fears At Every Turn Last week, the scare: "For the second straight day, Fox News stood virtually alone in advancing thinly supported speculation to raise fears that the wildfires ravaging California are not the result of a confluence of arid heat and high winds but were set deliberately by al Qaeda terrorists bent on destroying America." Raw Story.
 This week, the truth: "Officials blamed a wildfire that consumed more than 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes last week on a boy playing with matches, and said they would ask a prosecutor to consider the case." Associated Press Story. I find the tactics employed by Fox in this case to be a symptom of something more sophisticated, more insidious than mere fear mongering. Beyond the suffering of those displaced by the fires in California, the obvious issue raised by this natural disaster is whether global warming played a part? The al Qaeda misdirection diverted media attention away from that serious issue. News outlets and bloggers spun their wheels responding to the Fox story sucking energy away from the global warming story. The Bush Administration and Fox News are, in my opinion, lackeys for Big Oil. I wonder, when South Florida sinks into the ocean will will Big Oil finally relent in its propaganda war against global warming? 10/31/2007. Add Comment Permalink
Update. Fellow traveler Glenn Beck working a Fox-like angle attempting to disconnect the California wild fires from global warming. Coincidence?
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