MSM is not connecting the dots (are we surprised?)

Every morning, partly out of habit, partly out of martyrdom, and partly out of the same fascination that drives us to rubber-neck roadway accidents, I check out the San Francisco Chronicle on line.  It is certainly a nicely laid out home page.  It has clear links to its own columns and articles, and a nice little box constantly updated with the latest from wire services.  This neat layout was what made two headlines — one the Chronicle’s own and one from the WaPo (which went out over a wire service) — leap out at me.

Here’s the Chronicle’s headline: “ Food prices rise sharply – and there’s more to come.”  The article describes huge price increases (oh, joy!) and adds at the end that the problem seems to stem, in part, from rising gas and diesel costs.

And here’s the WaPo/wire headline:  “Fox News bias on climate change shows in e-mail.”  This article tracks on an email release showing that Fox’s official policy about global warming stories was to be skeptical.  What’s so funny is that the data is showing that Fox’s skepticism was exactly right.  While the climate is certainly changing, as it has done with regularity and frequency for the past 300 years, there is less and less evidence that humans are responsible, and more and more evidence that (a) we’re not going to immolate any time soon and (b) the “science” driving the whole global warming furor was a politically motivated show aimed, in significant part, at forcing the US to redistribute its wealth to needy Leftists.

What I find amusing about the two headlines/stories in one paper is that I doubt anyone at the Chron is looking at the food prices story and thinking . . . hmmm, maybe if we stopped panicking about global warming, which leads to demonizing fossil fuels, rather than working to us them more productively and cleanly, we might have lower food costs.  And while we’re at it, perhaps it’s a mistake to let the enviro-nazis turn California, which was the most productive food supplier in the world, turn into a desert.

My blog’s motto (“Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts”) applies with startling force to the cognitive dissonance that is the MSM’s daily diet.

(Garbled writing in the first paragraph corrected.  I’m going on vacation soon, and that’s probably a good thing.  My brain seems to need a break.)