Networks Silent As Obama Avoids Major Environmental Conference; ABC Attacked Bush 10 Years Earlier

From Media Research Center website http://www.mrc.org/articles/networks-silent-obama-avoids-major-environmental-conference-abc-attacked-bush-10-years-earl

President Obama is not attending the United Nations Environmental Conference on Sustainable Development, informally known as Rio+20, scheduled from June 20 to June 22. Rio+20, seeks “to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes of the major summits on sustainable development, and address new and emerging challenges.”

The American media has ignored the issue of Obama’s non-attendance. None of the three major networks mentioned the 2012 summit once, and the New York Times only briefly raised the issue of Obama’s non-attendance– once in print and twice on its blog networks.

However, 10 years earlier, when George W. Bush was president, the media slammed Bush for his refusal to attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development, popularly called Rio+10). In 2002, The New York Times featured Democratic politicians’ criticisms of Bush for his refusal to attend Rio+10, and published articles on its editorial page bashing Bush - written both by the Times’ editorial board and by guests.

Comments

[Tyesha]

I'm afraid that America will see anetohr period of republican government, and I am also afraid that that government will launch anetohr war (against Iran) before the next election.I'm European, but I've lived in the US under' Clinton and later for a short while under' the Bush administration. The latter reminded me of an ugly Banana republic dictatorship, fueled by fear and cheap propaganda.I won't say that things would significantly improve with Obama in the White House, but I think that at least they wouldn't get worse for America.As for the news' sources: People should be careful when they judge those real' information. This real' information depends heavily on who owns how many stocks of a publishing house and whether those stockholders have an agenda of their own. Usually political parties hold plenty of stock of relevant news and broadcasting enterprises, most of the time through holding companies which are owned by them, so their names won't appear immediately. This is also the case with private TV and radio stations, and it's the same in -any- country. And this is not a conspiracy theory, but a simple, verifiable fact.

[Monica]

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