Less than a week after it was revealed that Fox News' Washington managing editor Bill Sammon directed reporters to use Republican-generated talking points to slant their coverage of health care reform, another Sammon email has surfaced:
In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an email questioning the "veracity of climate change data" and ordering the network's journalists to "refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed (or cooled) in any given period without IMMEDIATELY pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question."
The directive, sent by Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon, was issued less than 15 minutes after Fox correspondent Wendell Goler accurately reported on-air that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization announced that 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest [decade] on record." [...]
Sammon's orders for Fox journalists to cast doubt on climate science came amid the network's relentless promotion of the fabricated "Climategate" scandal, which revolved around misrepresentations of emails sent to and from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit.
Yes, yes, I know. It's shocking to learn that Fox News isn't fair and balanced. But the rest of the traditional media will continue to pretend they are, and Democrats will continue to legitimize them by appearing on their shows ... and the media-arm of the Republican Party will continue to roll merrily along.