By Joseph Vazquez
One thing’s for sure: newly-minted CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil definitely has his work cut out for him if he’s serious about re-engineering the cesspool of lefty slop that has plagued that show for years. Its utterly embarrassing coverage — if you even want to call it that — of the climate change boondoggle is no exception. This is always an acceptable conspiracy theory — even if all the panicked predictions of imminent doom since 1988 haven’t come true.
CBS News National Correspondent and guest anchor Jericka Duncan took the imbecilic trend of young adults consulting the winds of climate change before having kids December 29 and somehow massaged it into news of national importance.
“There is a lot of concern in this country about climate change and its impact, particularly with some young adults who say it’s a consideration when deciding whether or not to have children.” Duncan teed up CBS national environmental correspondent David Schechter, who compares real war fears (nuclear war, 9/11) to leftist eco-panic.
“You might remember growing up feeling anxious about threats to our country like a nuclear war or 9/11,” Schechter sensationalized. “What today’s youth worries about is climate change.” Watching this segment was like watching someone scratch chalk across a blackboard.
At least this story had an alternative viewpoint, Alina Voss of the American Conservation Coalition — which CBS failed to name. She told Voss fear of climate disaster is no reason to avoid creating a new generation of humans.
But CBS also turned to Northwestern professor Sarah Dimick, who studies climate change themes in literature and composes papers like this beaut: “The Poetry of Climatic Witness: Slam Poets at United Nations Climate Summits.”
Climate Depot founder and executive director Marc Morano unloaded on CBS leadership following the climate-doom segment in comments to MRC Business. “Memo to Bari Weiss, CBS News still needs vast improvements in how it reports on ‘climate change. The unscientific premise of this segment on kids’ climate ‘anxiety’ was that we are all ‘definitely’ going to feel more extreme weather due to global warming,” he continued.
Morano argued that the reason why this is a trend at all amongst young people is exactly because they’ve been brainwashed by the educational system around them that has been infused with leftist axiomatic dogmas:
These kids have been propagandized from kindergarten through college and the least CBS News can do is provide accurate scientific reporting, which would ease their psychological climate worries.
Hopefully this is not a telltale sign of what the American people should expect from the supposed “anti-woke” revamping of the entire CBS News corporate structure.
