Polar bears? Censorship? Al Gore, Phelim McAleer Joust at Enviro Journalism Conference
source: http://sej2009.sej.org/2009/10/polar-bears-censorship.html
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Those who were at Al Gore's keynote address to SEJ's 19th annual conference Friday witnessed the brief "town hall" moment during the Q&A, when a questioner sparred with Gore over whether he would acknowledge alleged errors in his Oscar-winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth."
The questioner challenged Gore's characterization of polar bears as endangered and asserted the bears' numbers were on the rise. Gore and the questioner jawed back and forth briefly; then the questioner was asked to yield the microphone to other questioners and sit down.
He refused, clinging to the mic, until the sound was cut off.
McAleer, producer of the critical film "Not Evil Just Wrong," has since claimed censorship. The SEJ journalist in charger of the mic at the time says that's not what happened.
Read more at the link.
The questioner challenged Gore's characterization of polar bears as endangered and asserted the bears' numbers were on the rise. Gore and the questioner jawed back and forth briefly; then the questioner was asked to yield the microphone to other questioners and sit down.
He refused, clinging to the mic, until the sound was cut off.
McAleer, producer of the critical film "Not Evil Just Wrong," has since claimed censorship. The SEJ journalist in charger of the mic at the time says that's not what happened.
Read more at the link.
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JanforGore
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Good. According to the account at this link he went past the time allotment in trying to monopolize the question segment and was told to sit down. That isn't censorship. He also got an answer.Too bad if it wasn't what he wanted. Just another excuse to make something out of nothing because it is Al Gore.
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JanforGore
