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Just when you think it can't get any worse, another media outlet has stooped to one of the lowest forms of sensationalism I have ever witnessed in the print media. Simply to aid their agenda...And, they may be rewarded for it?..Disgraceful.....

Time Warp: Magazine Award Finalist for Offensive Iwo Jima Cover

Magazine editors honor global warming image that angered veterans.
By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute
10/2/2008 3:11:46 PM

How do you get nominated for a magazine award? Do something that offends almost everyone and tears down an American icon at the same time. Even better, claim you were just trying to get “attention.”

That’s certainly the strategy Time magazine deployed and they are seeing the benefits. Time’s persistent global warming hype led it to run a cover photo of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima – only the magazine deleted the flag and replaced it with a tree. The cover read: “How To Win The War On Global Warming.”

The cover, skewered by veterans, critics and even the National Press Photographers Association, was just nominated for an award from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Time was even picked as a 2008 Best Cover Concept Finalist for the design – competing with The New Yorker, Wired and Vanity Fair.

The controversy began with the April 28 issue when Time doctored the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag. The cover story by Bryan Walsh called green “the new red, white and blue.”

Veterans were outraged. Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was “an absolute disgrace.” “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor,” Mates said.

Time managing editor Richard Stengel appeared on MSNBC April 17 to defend the magazine. He said the United States needed to make a major effort to fight climate change, and that the cover’s purpose was to liken global warming to World War II.

“[O]ne of the things we do in the story is we say there needs to be an effort along the lines of preparing for World War II to combat global warming and climate change,” Stengel said.

But Stengel said the cover was about advocacy in a later appearance. He openly defied the traditional notion that journalists should be unbiased. “I didn’t go to journalism school,” Stengel said. “But this notion that journalism is objective, or must be objective is something that has always bothered me – because the notion about objectivity is in some ways a fantasy. I don’t know that there is as such a thing as objectivity.”

He made those comments at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., on April 21. “My feeling is you have to grab people by the lapels and say, ‘Hey, pay attention’ and that was the idea of doing this,” Stengel said. “[I] just think you can’t be squeamish about trying to get people’s attention.”

He also admitted he understood the image might be offensive. “Yes, absolutely,” Stengel said, reacting to a question if he thought some might be offended by the cover. “I certainly hear that some people would be offended by it. Obviously many people have – were offended by it. But I do think, and I have made this case and I’ve made the case to people who have talked about it, is that climate change and we can even discuss the merits of it or not – climate change is going to affect every living human being.”

In response to the cover, the Media Research Center, the parent of the Business & Media Institute, launched a petition that condemned the use of the iconic Iwo Jima photo as a global warming prop.

More than 33,000 signatures were collected for the petition, which called for immediate action by Time. The petition condemned the liberties the magazine took in addressing global warming:

MRC President Brent Bozell sent a letter dated April 23 to Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel also denouncing the magazine’s use of the photo and the absence of an apology from Stengel.

We have the recent rants of Al Gore ...
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..And now, Time Magazine's Thoughtless sensationalism, Which, totally disrespects the heroic deeds and sacrifices of our brave soldiers in Iwo Jima? All because the 'global warming' hypothesis, which, according to more and more prominent scientist, is NOT HAPPENING!!!

Whatever happened to Professionalism??

Check out the Ozone man's latest plea to 'save the planet'.

By Michelle Nichols

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon.

The former U.S. vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, told a philanthropic meeting in New York City that "the world has lost ground to the climate crisis."

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration," Gore told the Clinton Global Initiative gathering to loud applause.

"I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact," he said. "I hope these state attorney generals around the country will take some action on that."

The government says about 28 coal plants are under construction in the United States. Another 20 projects have permits or are near the start of construction.

Scientists say carbon gases from burning fossil fuel for power and transport are a key factor in global warming.

Carbon capture and storage could give coal power an extended lease on life by keeping power plants' greenhouse gas emissions out of the atmosphere and easing climate change.

But no commercial-scale project exists anywhere to demonstrate the technology, partly because it is expected to increase up-front capital costs by an additional 50 percent.

So-called geo-sequestration of carbon sees carbon dioxide liquefied and pumped into underground rock layers for long term storage.

Uh, Al....What exactly do you mean by 'civil disobedience' ? Care to elaborate ? You did not specify civil disobedience within the boundaries of the law, did you? Are you willing to pay the fines of these young people whom you have asked to do your dirty deeds if they get arrested?

""the world has lost ground to the climate crisis.".... The world?? Perhaps Al is referring to the fact that more and more prominent scientist worldwide are finding fault with the 'man made' global warming hypothesis?

"I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact,"..... Material fact?? There is no evidence that carbon output factors into climate. Speculation.?...Yes. Material fact?...NO!!! There is, however, plenty of fraudulent information in your movie! And you, sir, pay your carbon offsets to a company that you are part owner of?

"But no commercial-scale project exists anywhere to demonstrate the technology"... Here we go! Time to use yet another unproven technology that is very expensive, because of a hypothesis!! Can't we proceed with caution and perfect this technology first?

Personally, I believe that Al owes the public another apology for this kind of nonsense, but, then again, he has never apologized for misleading us with his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth'...which has been so shot full of holes, that it no longer viable as a documentary.

Al has already scared the hell out of children with his ridiculous, unsubstantiated doomsday scenarios, now he's asking our young to break the law? It's time for Al to fade away, and, count his money.

Warm milk....A shawl across his lap....his real puppy on his lap?

Now, the climate king has gone even further....

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That's right.... Bail Al out!!!