Yesterday's shocking story from The Indepedent about the polar icecap melting before winter was treated as a ho-hum happening by the nation's news media elite, including The New York Times and CNN.
Instead, there was more concentration on the body language of Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in their first, Love Connection supportive appearance at Unity, N.H. Hey masters of the nation's leading print and TV information outlets: Obama may not have a nation to lead if he wins in November because the freakin' planet and all of us on it may soon be dead from global warming.
Think that $4 a gallon has changed lives? Consider rising sea levels on ocean communities, the extinction of species including those cuddly polar bears and baby seals, increasing temperatures and more, severe crop-killing drought and floods when the world needs and can afford more food.
Somebody get out the 96-point headline type reserved for Jesus' Second Coming.
Former Vice President Al Gore must have been feeling lower than an intellectual on Rush Limbaugh's support staff as he paced his local Belle Meade mansion over the media's meltdown about the most shocking event so far from global warming.
The icecap has never melted before, which satisfies one of the categories of newsworthiness that I learned in journalism school. First man on the Moon ... newsworthy. First vacine for polio ... newsworthy. First Bush speech without an embarrassing gaffe ... newsworthy. FIRST TIME THE FREAKIN' POLAR ICECAP IS GOING TO MELT ... DAMN NEWSWORTHY!
Think of the North Pole under water in September before refreezing in winter. It makes even a child want to cry.
Aaaaaheeeeee! The world really could be coming to an end, and CNN is focused on how Hillary is leaning in her pants suit and what Obama's eyes are really telling us. Yes, the Obama-Clinton love-in was a first, too. But bigger than the beginning of the world coming to an end? No way.
It makes you ashamed to be a media professional. Do these elites really believe that mere mention is enough for a story so shocking to the planet's future?
I'm no environmentalist, but I can recognize something terribly bad. Then consider all the nations rushing to ice-uncovered territory to turn the polar region into a big, polluted oil field on top of the world. You can bet the Russians aren't going to be concerned about the mess they make. And no one will have to give up their gas guzzlers after all, dooming the world's ozone layer.
Either way, we're dead.
Forgive them, Mr. Gore. The nation's media outlets really haven't been listening and learning.
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