One enduring complaint with the Miami Herald appears to be resolving: the editorial page’s non-descript position on the politics of global warming.
With South Florida dead in sight of sea-level rise, the Herald’s editorial page should have launched, long ago, a steady assault on the Bush White House's damaging suppression of science related to the environment and climate change.
On the day news is filled with the latest IPCC report on climate change (that’s the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a standing committee of the world’s leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations) the Herald notes Congressional testimony this week disclosing a survey of nearly 300 federal scientists of whom fully half "had experienced or head about pressure to downplay warngins about the growing amount of evidence of climate change and global warming."
The Herald makes the link, then, to the ominous move this week by President Bush to assume more control over regulatory agencies, like those that deal with climate change, by ordering each federal agency to have a regulatory-policy office run by a political appointee. Then, the Herald notes the dangerous tendency of this White House to act unilaterally, creating victims of science policy in its wake.
During Governor Jeb Bush's two terms, the Herald might have similarly objected to environmental policy and science pushing predetermined outcomes. It never did.
But there is always a new edition of the paper, and on this day, good for the Miami Herald editorial page.
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They are losing readership because of their secular-progressive agenda. Another liberal rag in the toilet - good riddens.
For all the reasons you cite, and every other environmental consideration you can imagine,the Miami Hurled should be first among the nation's newspapers blowing the trumpet about global warming and its insidious impact on coastal areas. But, as a corporate mouthpiece that recognizes its obligation to moneyed interests, as well as the limited financial return that investigative and advocacy journalism yield, it's MIA on this and every other contentious issue that comes before it. That's why it's lame, and it's not alone. Our loss.
But... If they talked about global warming, and its concomitant problems like the insurance crisis then people might not buy condos from the advertisers and how would they send that 22% return to HQ? Its not about guts its about money.
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