Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science

The Huffington Post
Jack Mirkinson First Posted: 12-15-10

A top Fox News editor sent an email to staffers and journalists questioning the science behind global warming and directing them to always point out on air that the theory has its skeptics.

Media Matters obtained the memo. It is the second such email the organization has released in as many weeks. Like the last one, the global warming memo came from Bill Sammon, Fox News' Washington managing editor. Sammon was also the author of an email directing journalists to use the phrase "government option" instead of "public option."

Media Matters reports that the email was issued December 8, 2009, just fifteen minutes after Wendell Goler, currently the network's White House correspondent, said on air that the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization had announced that the decade of 2000-2009 was "on track to be the warmest on record." (Goler was speaking from the Copenhagen climate summit.)

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