Plenty about in the blogosphere about cold hard facts which increase the question marks over "Global Warming". Richard North contributed here. And read Melanie Phillips' summary of the latest cold data.This is picked up by Philip Stott, who asks about the role of our supposedly impartial news media. The media's near silence on this, he says, "betrays so much about our failing journalism under the exclusive dominance of hegemonic myths. We joke about 1984, but I sometimes wonder."
Yet, thank goodness for the web. As it was with the invention of printing, this is the new liberator, helping us to break the dangerous hegemonies that seek to enslave our minds and lives. But now, alternative voices can no longer be suppressed by a weakened and often compliant media, trendy editors, or media magnates.And he concludes that
Melanie Phillips, and all writers and bloggers like her, are a brave voice for freedom in a world where too many who should know much, much better are seeking to exclude inconvenient truths and facts, but, above all, to shut down the voice of reason.Inconvenient truths, indeed!
There is also a media agenda about the EU. Shh is the order of the day here too. Not all of this is a conspiracy. Some presenters who strive for impartiality seem to be genuinely ignorant about the scale of EU power. Ability to get the rational case across hasn't been helped by the wild-eyed, flag waving tendency. Richard North comments today on the blind spot at the BBC. I'd like to see a volunteer group of media monitors who would pick up errors and omissions and bring them to the attention of the programmes, as well as reporting them on a blog. It could start small and grow.
Any takers?
