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Metrics Expose Media Suppression of Climategate

Via Planet Gore:

Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitting it is – as Richard North demonstrates in this fascinating analysis. Using what he calls a Tiger Woods Index (TWI), he compares the amount of interest being shown by internet users (as shown by the number of general web pages on Google) and compares it with the number of news reports recorded. The ratio indicates what people are really interested in, as opposed to what the MSM thinks they ought to be interested in.

North explains:

Tiger Woods delivered 22,500,000 web and 46,025 news pages, giving ratio of 489. That is the “Tiger Woods Index” (TWI) against which I chose to measure a raft of other issues.

Here are the rankings:

  1. Climategate: 28,400,000 – 2,930 = 9693
  2. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 – 154,145 = 928
  3. Obama: 202,000,000 – 252,583 = 800
  4. Tiger Woods: 22,500,000 – 46,025 = 489
  5. Gordon Brown: 12,300,000 – 37,021 = 332
  6. Climate change: 22,200,000 – 68,419 = 324
  7. Sally Bercow: 25,000 – 86 = 290
  8. David Cameron: 545,000 – 4837 = 113
  9. Meredith Kercher: 261,000 – 3,471 = 75
  10. Chilcot Inquiry: 125,000 – 4,350 = 29

In order to more clearly see the extent to which the mainstream media are suppressing one of the most important revelations in history, I plotted North’s results in a pie chart:

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The mainstream news suppression of the climate scientist’s lies is an order of magnitude greater than the next topic, Afghanistan. Likewise, they suppress most news and information that conflicts with their far-left agenda and promote meaningless “noise stories,” like the Tiger Woods incident.

The televised and print media are not our friends.

UPDATE: Thanks to Richard North of EUReferendum and Edward Craig of Planet Gore for posting our graphic on their sites.

05 Dec 2009 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats Media

The Fox Hunt

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal posted this item today about MoveOn.org’s attack on Fox News:

MoveOn.org, the ghastly people who brought us “General Betray Us,” have joined President Obama in his war against Fox News Channel. Yesterday we received an email from MoveOn’s Noah T. Winer that begain:

“All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda—repeating lies about “death panels,” promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping up fake political scandals.

Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a “wing of the Republican Party . . . let’s not pretend they’re a news network.” To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.

It’s about time Democrats stood up to FOX! Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama’s stance by staying off FOX as long as he does?”

fox-hunt.jpgWe think Fox is too left-wing, so we signed the petition in the hope of remedying that.

Seriously, though, we are of two minds about this, and we should begin by disclosing our direct interest in the matter: We have been an employee of Fox’s parent company, News Corp., since it acquired Dow Jones & Co. in December 2007, and we own some News Corp. stock.

Of course it delights us to see the president and his most unsavory supporters promote Fox as the only TV news network that isn’t in the tank for the administration. Although this isn’t entirely fair to the other networks–in particular, ABC News’s Jake Tapper has shown a strong independent streak–it is well-deserved recognition for the work Fox has done in bringing to the fore such stories as the Van Jones and Acorn scandals, which many other news organizations ignored for as long as they could.

On the other hand, we are an American, and Barack Obama is our president too. It cracks us up when MoveOn.org cheers on the president for “fighting back” by “not appearing” and “staying off.” “Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about, and gallantly he chickened out.”

But it scares the hell out of us to think that this also seems to be Obama’s approach to dealing with America’s enemies.

Emphasis mine – Obama seems unable to face his enemies, political or otherwise.

Fox Hunt cartoon via the Patriot post.

21 Oct 2009 by Media Whacko Politics

That’s The Way It Is

cronkite.jpgAlways a fan of the great Walter Cronkite, but seldom in agreement with his political leanings, it is with nostalgia and a bit of sadness that we acknowledge the life and works of a great American News Icon. We grew up and spent most of our young adulthood watching and listening to the way it was.

God bless the family in this hour of loss.

Walter Cronkite – 1916-2009 – Rest in peace.

17 Jul 2009 by Culture Media

Four Corners Location is (mostly) Correct

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Google Earth

The actual location of the Four Corners Monument is off a bit, but not by the 2.5 miles reported by the Associated Press and a Salt Lake City newspaper.

However, legally (and symbolically), the Four Corners Monument is, indeed, on the spot where the borders intersect, since the Supreme Court of the United States decreed it to be so in 1925. Political boundaries are, after all, at the behest of politicians and judges.

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Google Maps

However, the actual intersection of the defined longitude and latitude may be as far away from the monument as six hundred meters.

I found the Four Corners monument using both Google Earth and Google Maps. Even between the two Google sources, they disagree. They both show a segment of border that runs slightly west from the monument. I could find no reference to the anomalous segment.

I checked several other on-line map sources and no two agree. Some show the anomalous border segment and some do not.

The Arizona Geology Blog has a brief post about the confusion.

Wikipedia has already picked up on the cause of the erroneous report:

The Four Corners Area is generally defined as a circle around the Four Corners Monument located at 36° 59″ 56.31532′ N by 109° 02″ 42.62019′ W. A series of news stories from April of 2009 indicated that more recent surveys had determined that the intersection of the corners was not where it was intended to be.

However, the news stories used whole degree co-ordinates, not accounting for the fractional degree offset between the Washington Meridian, standard used at the time, and the current standard, the Prime Meridian. In addition, general U.S. land principles, law, and the Supreme Court have determined that the location of the monument is the legal corner of the four States.

Click on either image to enlarge.

This picture shows Damsel standing on the Four Corners Monument the last time we were there.

Four Corners

22 Apr 2009 by Culture Media

NASA Mocks Stephen Colbert

C.O.L.B.E.R.T.NASA Rejected ‘Colbert’ as the name of ISS Node 3 and named it “Tranquility” in commemoration of the first manned Lunar landing in 1969. Colbert did not come away empty-handed though, since the ISS treadmill has been dubbed the ‘Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill,’ or COLBERT.

From NASA:

The International Space Station module formerly known as Node 3 has a new name. After receiving more than a million responses in an online poll, NASA is naming the node “Tranquility.”

The name Tranquility was chosen from thousands of suggestions submitted by participants on www.nasa.gov. The “Help Name Node 3” poll asked people to vote for the module’s name either by choosing one of four options listed by NASA or offering their own suggestion. Tranquility was one of the top ten suggestions submitted by respondents to the poll, which ended March 20.

Colbert, as you may recall, prompted his fan base to write in ‘Colbert’ as the name for Node 3. NASA received a lot of “Colbert” support, but selected “Tranquility.”

I, for one, am amused by the way it turned out. Although NASA was trying to gracefully placate Colbert with this treadmill business, it seems like a smackdown to me.

Click on the logo above to see the full-sized version (courtesy NASA).

16 Apr 2009 by Media Rocket Science

Some Choice Quotes

Taken from Charles Krauthammer‘s comments on Fox News yesterday about Obama‘s California Townhall meeting:

Well, Obama’s modus operandi is when the going gets tough, he gets going. He gets out of town. The best thing he does is campaign, so that’s what he wants to do. He’s not apparently that good at governing. He is not a lot of experience. He never ran a candy store in the past and he’s having a little stumbling trouble these days running his government. But, you know, presidents who are good speakers have charisma and popular support, like Reagan, will go over the heads of Congress directly to the people when they are in trouble and need help.

Gospel according to Ronald Reagan:

Government is the Problem

19 Mar 2009 by Current Events Media

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