Seeing No Evil On Climate-Gate

The evolution of America's dominant media from guardians of our freedoms to enablers of government growth has been a decades-long story, their biases copiously chronicled.

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But their response to the scientific scandal of the century, since it broke a week and a half ago, bids to become known as history's great unmasking of these supposedly independent journalists. The scandal burst into the open when a hacker — we'll call that mysterious figure a whistle-blower if they won't — released thousands of e-mails exchanged by climate scientists who beaver away at Britain's University of East Anglia. More...