‘AVOID FALSE BALANCE’: AP Style Guide
Aims to Silence Dissent From Climate Alarmist Narrative
Daily Signal,
by
Tyler O´Neil
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
4/8/2024 7:47:25 AM
Most news outlets rely on The Associated Press style guide—officially known as the AP Stylebook—as the arbiter for grammar, spelling, and terminology in news coverage. While AP puts forth its style guide as an impartial rubric for fair coverage, its rules often exclude conservative views from the outset.
Take AP’s latest round of updates, released Friday. (Snip)
Yet one of the largest sections of the updated style guide involves “climate change,” a term that AP says “can be used interchangeably” with the term “climate crisis.”
“Climate change, resulting in the climate crisis, is largely caused by human activities that emit carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases into
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/8/2024 8:39:36 AM (No. 1695117)
Another way that Group Think is propagated. One can only imagine the AP's "style book" from the pre-Civil War era: "Avoid humanizing blacks, characterize people who say the Bible disapproves of slavery as irrational Bible thumpers, personally attack anyone who states that slavery is a blight, challenge the qualifications of anyone who says slavery is uneconomical, and kill any stories which are favorable to slaves only reporting them if unavoidable and then in an unsympathetic way."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 4/8/2024 8:47:09 AM (No. 1695123)
Extra merit points for using the word "existential".
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
downnout 4/8/2024 8:48:57 AM (No. 1695126)
No CO2, no plants.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Manxsom Foe 4/8/2024 9:06:35 AM (No. 1695135)
Should we mention Glacial Eras? Did they end by way of Climate Change/Crisis or industrial pollution? How many times has the climate endured a Crisis that melted glaciers and Changed Sea Level? Why are Solar Radiation Fluctuations never mentioned? Why is no one trying to regulate Water Vapor in the atmosphere? That is a much stronger greenhouse gas than methane or CO2. Why do so many politicians who want to dictate the control of emissions of greenhouse gases buy water front property? Should we follow the Science of Glaciation or Deny and Ignore it? Are we even permitted to ask questions?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/8/2024 9:44:04 AM (No. 1695147)
Orwell saw far into the future with incredible clarity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janjan 4/8/2024 10:00:36 AM (No. 1695153)
The media are still operating under the delusion that they can control thinking by controlling the narrative. It is this strategy that has caused most of the damage to their credibility. Behold the protesters who somehow believe that they can control the weather by throwing tomato soup at historic paintings. Information and knowledge are out there and available to anyone with a smart phone. We certainly don’t need to rely on the AP.
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janjan 4/8/2024 10:04:55 AM (No. 1695159)
Just like protesters who believe that they can impact the climate by throwing tomato soup at historic paintings, the media are still deluded into believing that they can control the narrative. Diverse professional opinions are available to anyone with a smart phone. We don’t need to rely on the AP.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/8/2024 10:14:21 AM (No. 1695164)
The one true thing about climate change is that it's nature, not man.
Sure it changes it always has and always will, but we don't control it nor can we.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2024 10:41:01 AM (No. 1695196)
"False balance"......yeah, in other words, NO FAIRNESS, no even reporting, just pump the fake climate scam propaganda, and always ignore all the massive truths that show it is a scam.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/8/2024 10:51:21 AM (No. 1695209)
FTA: “Climate change, resulting in the climate crisis, is largely caused by human activities that emit carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, according to the vast majority of peer-reviewed studies, science organizations and climate scientists,” the AP style guide intones. “This happens from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and other activities. Greenhouse gases are the main driver of climate change.”
Every single word of this is 100% provably false. And, the “peer-reviewed studies, science organizations and climate scientists” know it, as does AP.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/8/2024 11:06:00 AM (No. 1695236)
Go watch "Climate, the Movie (2023)" then get back to me.
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kono 4/8/2024 11:07:53 AM (No. 1695238)
The "Style" Guide is more like the Catechism of the Global-Socialism religion.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/8/2024 12:19:25 PM (No. 1695303)
I love to read Charles Dickens novels. I think he is the greatest British novelist ever. In many of them, he talks about the bitter cold and ice of a London winter. They don't have that now. In Dickens time, there was the Little Ice Age when it was much colder. It's warmer now, but we may have another Little Ice Age and humans will have not caused it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/8/2024 12:56:37 PM (No. 1695327)
Admitting that they are a PROPAGANDA source, not a news source. In writing.....FRAUD, not fairness.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
David Key 4/8/2024 1:53:32 PM (No. 1695349)
Woke speak....Climate Change = Weather, Crisis = vote democrat
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