Detroit — Not since the MSM’s cover-up of the Freddie Mac-Fannie Mae-ACORN origins of the financial crisis (and Barack Obama’s role as the largest recipient of their campaign largesse) has mainstream-media malfeasance been as clear as in its coverage of Climaquiddick. The major MSM outlets are either ignoring or pooh-poohing the sci-fi scandal, while the alternative press has done the hard reporting.

Here in Michigan — an industrial state in the crosshairs of cap and trade — no MSM outlet has assigned a reporter to the story. The Detroit Free Press, the state’s largest newspaper, completely blacked out news of Climaquiddick for three weeks — until last Sunday, when it ran a wire story from AP’s in-the-tank green reporter Seth Borenstein.

Titled “Warming emails shock, but facts are facts,” the story is shocking even by the low standards of biased journalism. An excerpt:

LONDON (AP) — E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.
The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don’t undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Longtime opponents of mainstream climate science have repeatedly quoted excerpts of about a dozen e-mails. They cited a “culture of corruption” that the e-mails appeared to show. That is not what the AP found. There were signs of trying to present the data as convincingly as possible.

Nowhere in the article does AP ever consult a global warming “critic” (the standard AP stylebook term for those who hold opposing views — except when the topic is global warming, in which case the news agency has shamefully chosen to employ to “skeptics” or “deniers” in its coverage).

The media world has been turned upside down. For partisan opinion, read AP. For the facts, readers must go to opinion journals like The Weekly Standard and Planet Gore contributor Steven Hayward’s excellent article here.