Reply #51: What you don't get is, the corporate-owned media presents "both sides"

[Warren DeMontague]

...right? To be "fair", right?

Except- There is no BOTH SIDES to this issue. Just like evolution, there is SCIENCE, backed up by the FACTS, and then there is a small group of agenda-driven individuals who base their "arguments" on absolutely nothing at all. In the case of evolution, they are driven by religious belief. In the case of global warming, they are- to the one- paid Petroleum industry shills.

No one is more of a first amendment absolutist than me, but when two or three corporations own ALL the media outlets in the country, and present a grossly distorted view of "reality" (look at what has happened to television "news" in this country in the past few decades and tell me that's not the case) then that situation is anything but "free speech".

People deserve the facts. The facts are clear and unmistakeable on global warming just like the facts are clear that the Earth isn't 6,000 years old. Someone's ridiculous fantasy doesn't deserve equal time in the interest of being (kaff!) "fair and balanced".