It’s a sick crew running the media ship….
The League of Conservation Voters generated quite a bit of buzz on environmental blogs this week after it launched a new campaign pressing America’s most-watched political reporters to bring up global warming more often on all those influential Sunday talk shows. The group reviewed videotape of more than 120 interviews of presidential contenders by Chris Wallace, Tim Russert, George Stephanopoulos, Wolf Blitzer and Bob Schieffer this year.
In the 2,275 questions posed, the phrases “climate change” or “global warming” were used three times, and a total of 24 questions indirectly touched on climate or related issues, the group said.
Here’s the League’s count of 2007 talk-show questions mentioning climate:
– Wolf Blitzer, CNN: 1 out of 311
– Tim Russert, NBC: 0 out of 664
– Bob Scheiffer, CBS: 0 out of 212
– George Stephanopoulos, ABC: 0 out of 661
– Chris Wallace, FOX: 2 out of 427
And they aren’t even counting Chris Matthews atrocious Hardball….