ABC News published a very dry Associated Press article on its website this morning about Al Gore's acceptance of his Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
Al Gore said the Nobel Peace Prize he accepts Monday already has helped draw the world's attention to global warming and he expressed optimism that growing public pressure would push governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions.The story by AP reporter Doug Mellgren goes on in that vein for another 460 words - just a nice, straightforward piece of journalism.
The former vice president shares the prize with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will be represented at Monday's award ceremony by its leader, Rajendra Pachauri.
A day before accepting the prize, Gore said reducing greenhouse gases was essential to fighting the "planetary emergency" of global warming. "That phrase may sound shrill to some ears but it is accurate," he said.
"It is a question of the survival of our civilization," Gore told reporters at the Nobel Institute in downtown Oslo. "CO2 increases anywhere are a threat to the future of civilization everywhere."
ABC News, however, couldn't resist the urge to editorialize. On the page, the headline is consistent with the tone of the story:
But take a close look at the browser tab to see what the editors at ABC News really think of Al Gore's having won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Consolation Prize. Nice, huh?Funny, I didn't notice that category on the Nobel Institute's website.
Al Gore, a visionary leader who endured decades of dismissal, ridicule, and scorn as he called attention to possibly the greatest threat that humankind has ever faced, is finally being recognized for his heroic effort with the world's most prestigious honor, and ABC News snickers.
It's getting so you can't tell the "liberal media" apart from the Free Republic.
1 comments:
I find his getting the Prize faintly ridiculous myself, but the NObel is anything but a consolation prize.
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