{"id":9869,"date":"2013-02-14T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9869"},"modified":"2013-02-14T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T21:09:21","slug":"washington-post-single-handedly-makes-climate-change-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9869","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Single-Handedly Makes Climate Change Disappear!"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If a tree falls in the forest (because of global warming), but the media doesn’t report on it, does it make a sound?,” asks Joe Romm at Climate Progress<\/a>, along with a pretty incredible observation.<\/p>\n

Romm highlighted the Washington Post’s<\/i> front page banner the day after this week’s State of the Union speech, during which President Obama spent a rather large chunk of it on issues related to climate change and energy.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, when WaPo<\/i> summarized the percentage of the speech devoted to each of the various topics mentioned during the address, here was the front page banner<\/a> used to detail it on Wednesday (click graphic to enlarge<\/i>):<\/p>\n

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As Romm notes:<\/p>\n

In its quantification of the key elements of the speech, the paper’s editors apparently couldn’t see or hear or speak of the nearly 10% of the State of the Union address devoted to climate and energy. But, hey, Obama devoted 3% of the speech to immigration “\u201d that’s news!<\/div>\n

Amazing.<\/p>\n

But, maybe such things just aren’t very important to the “State of the Union” after a year of record drought, record heat, and a record number of global warming-related natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“If a tree falls in the forest (because of global warming), but the media doesn’t report on it, does it make a sound?,” asks Joe Romm at Climate Progress, along with a pretty incredible observation. Romm highlighted the Washington Post’s front page banner the day after this week’s State of the Union speech, during which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,543,200,548,188,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-washington-post","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}