February 14, 2010

Media Matters Daily Summary



Media Matters for America
Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story.
Wallace says he "stud[ied] up" for climate change discussion -- then repeats tired falsehoods
After claiming that he had been "studying up" for a discussion on climate change, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeated the false accusation that emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia show "climate change advocates were suppressing opposition" and asked, "Hasn't a lot of the science turned out to be somewhat sketchy?" In fact, the East Anglia emails did not demonstrate an attempt to "suppress opposition," and the scientific consensus on the reality of climate change continues to be unchanged. Read More
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