5.09.2007

If we've lost Fox, we've lost America

It's a sad day indeed. Fox News has joined the MSM's global warming hysteria:
While not groundbreaking, Murdoch's strategy to cut News Corp.'s own emissions is nothing to sneeze at: The company will reduce its carbon footprint 10 percent by 2012 via energy-efficiency efforts and use of renewable energy, and it will become carbon-neutral even sooner, in 2010, by buying emission offsets from projects such as wind farms in India.

But Murdoch said that News Corp.'s hundreds of millions of viewers and readers represent the most fertile ground for change: "Our audience's carbon footprint is 10,000 times bigger than ours ... Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months."
I guess Al Gore got to him. Next thing you know, the Murdochs will start purchasing carbon offsets.

Gone are the days of hysteria-free 'Fair and Balanced' coverage like this: