[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 22]
[House]
[Pages 29845-29846]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  NETWORKS IGNORE CLIMATEGATE SCANDAL

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Madam Speaker, ABC, CBS, and NBC are the winners 
of this week's Media Fairness Caucus' highly uncoveted ``Lap Dog 
Award'' for the most glaring example of media bias. The networks took 2 
weeks to devote any coverage to the Climategate scandal on their 
evening news programs.
  We now know that prominent scientists were so determined to advance 
the idea of human-made global warming that they worked together to hide 
contradictory temperature data. But for 2 weeks, none of the networks 
gave the scandal any coverage on their evening news programs, and when 
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finally did cover it, their reporting was largely slanted in favor of 
global warming alarmists.
  The networks have shown a steady pattern of bias on climate change. 
During a 6-month period, four out of five network news reports failed 
to acknowledge any dissenting views about global warming, according to 
a Business and Media Institute study.
  The networks should tell Americans the truth, rather than hide the 
facts.

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