Wednesday’s CBS This Morning gave another glowing segment to Swede and climate change teen Greta Thunberg, but as my colleague Scott Whitlock noted, they failed to include an embarrassing tidbit that, while the teen sailed on a zero emissions-boat across the Atlantic to New York for a United Nations conference, two individuals are being flown across the Atlantic to retrieve the boat.
This was despite the fact that Thunberg herself has decried flying as horrid for the planet. While an Associated Press story claimed that “the carbon emissions from their flights will be compensated for,” the irony remained.
Yet, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News ignored it while covering Thunberg’s arrival (while ABC’s World News Tonight didn’t cover it).
The 130-word AP item said a team “spokeswoman….said it’ll be necessary to fly the crew to the U.S. because the high-profile trip with the 16-year-old Swedish campaigner that left Plymouth on Wednesday was arranged at very short notice” and that they recognize that this is “an imperfect solution.”
Yikes.
At any rate, the CBS Evening News kept up the hype and good feelings. Fill-in anchor John Dickerson referred to Thunberg in a tease for an 18-second brief as a “climate warrior….with a message to the President.”
New to this part of her story was NBC Nightly News, which gave her arrival a one-minute-and-13-second story.
Filling in for Lester Holt, Sunday anchor Kate Snow introduced correspondent Kelly Cobiella’s piece:
“A teenage climate activist whose passion for the planet has attracted global attention arrived in New York City today. The young environmentalist chose to travel on a zero-emissions yacht and she invited fans to share the journey.”
Cobiella even made a point to mention Thunberg’s decision to sail here because of her disdain for flying (which took 15 days and one day later than planned due to rough seas):
The 16-year-old Swedish student, who started a global youth movement when she went on strike from school last year, set sail from England August 14th for New York and the United Nations Climate Conference taking a boat, she said, because flying is terrible for the planet…Sharing her maiden voyage with her two million social media followers tweeting “it’s like camping on a roller coaster.” And on day 8, “you really lose sense of time.”
While such a small tidbit in the bias by omission department isn’t that big of a deal compared to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell’s bit, it’s yet another reminder of how many in the national media fail to accomplish the most basic elements of newsgathering.
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Zero-emissions Yacht…made the trip in 15 days, I bet they used their diesel burning engine when the wind was not favorable for sailing!
How is she getting back?
I guess they are sticking us with her. They imagine she can do the most damage here.
Make her swim back…………….
Well, on a positive note, the teenage “Climate Superstar” can EDUCATE herself on GHG reductions while visiting the U.S. If her “handlers” would bother to check into FACTS and run a keyword search on my comments (here), they’d learn that the U.S is the UNDISPUTED world LEADER in emissions reductions amongst industrialized nations. Check the EPA website…it’ll take about 2 minutes to verify. The U.S has reduced it’s CO2 output to 1992 levels. Oh, you also find out that the U.S has reduced “criteria pollutants” 70% from 1970 levels. Good story, if you bother to look for it. So, all this without the Paris Climate Agreement and heavily relying on free markets & technology to drive the change. No offense, but perhaps Greta & her crew need to do a bit more HOMEWORK before they judge folks on this side of the “pond”…
Lets see her flap her arms and fly back since the Liberals seem to think she can walk on the air or walk on the water lets see this little product of Brainwashing fly on her own
In my mind, I have to equate “the carbon emissions from their flights will be compensated for,” with putting a dollar in the swear jar. What could that expression possibly mean? Compensating whom? If the carbon dioxide output is supposedly damaging, how do these wonks determine who was harmed and deserve to be compensated? And is the compensation sufficient to correct the damage? The whole notion is so self-serving among these nut-jobs, it is to be pitied that they may actually believe themselves.
Isn’t that amazing… a yacht built without the use of any fossil fuels .
How is aluminium created by the way . Solar panels ?
The hypocrisy is just stunning .
Do it in a birch bark canoe then you have bragging rights .
Cancel all flights over the Atlantic for a month and see how many takers there are to go in full on NINA , Pinta and Santa Maria replicas .
The sailboat was made mostly from Carbon Fiber.
How many men with one young “innocent” teenage girl for two weeks? Hormones, anyone?
I don’t trust most of the MSM with accurate reporting of sports scores .
But you know despite the promotion at least there is an attempt to be “green ” .
The other thing is when you have been bobbing along on the ocean for a couple of weeks and seeing virtually no one or anything you clue in to how totally insignificant humans actually are .
Most of that CO2 you are so terrified about comes right off those natural sources .
I hope she had fun .