Apparently, Amanpour has never heard of the word “irony.”
Via Daily Caller.
CNN’s chief international correspondent said skeptics of man-made global warming should not be given equal time on the news while accepting an award for championing press freedom.
Christiane Amanpour, who hosts the nightly show “Amanpour,” then went on to say how covering ethnic cleansing in Bosnia during the 1990s taught her to “never to equate victim with aggressor, never to create a false moral or factual equivalence.”
“It appeared much of the media got itself into knots trying to differentiate between balance, objectivity, neutrality, and crucially, truth,” Amanpour said while accepting an award for press freedom in November. The award was presented by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
“We cannot continue the old paradigm–let’s say like over global warming, where 99.9 percent of the empirical scientific evidence is given equal play with the tiny minority of deniers,” she said….
Ms. Amanpour illustrates what is wrong with journalists: the loudest proponents of a complex mathematical model (I’m looking at you Christiane) have minimal training in science and mathematics, but are given authority by dint of their employer’s broadcasting power. Consensus is a political term, not a scientific term. She needs to read Thomas S. Kuhn (or perhaps even the Wikipedia article on his work) to learn about the structure of scientific revolutions — the consensus view is frequently wrong or incomplete to some degree.
This is what Curating is. Prevent ‘false equivalence’. Who says the equivalence is false? Oh, ‘journalists’. Who says whom are journalists? Oh, the government. Committee to Protect Journalists. Protect from what/whom is my question. From me?
…us.
She won an award for her writing and, she is slamming us for believing in global icing? Well, I guess I am one of the tiny minority of deniers! Buh. Bye!!
In most every walk of life, there are the achievers, those who are worthy of our admiration, respect and gratitude; and then there are those who continually give each other awards.