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YouTube vs. CNN on the Clean Coal Debate


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A new YouTube video raises the question of whether CNN's coverage of the clean coal debate has been biased by a multi-million dollar advertising campaign purchased on CNN by the coal industry through Americans for Balanced Energy Choices, a coal front group since renamed the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

The ad campaign, which began a year ago, was created by Waylon Ad, a firm representing both ABEC and the National Mining Association. A coal industry website describes the purpose of the CNN ad campaign: "The St. Louis ad agency's spot, which follows a debut effort that broke in April, suggests coal use is economically efficient and environmentally friendly.

In the latest spot, a panorama of people and faces, including a man in the middle of a field with an electric guitar, is shown as a voiceover touts coal use." The low budget video piece was posted on YouTube June 24.
Watch it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKR-6Szlv0g
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22 responses // YouTube vs. CNN on the Clean Coal Debate

  • You should check out www.PRWatch.org as well. It's a GREAT source.

    Be educated.
    onechance
  • Also, along that same subject line, more corruption in the ranks:

    http://www.prwatch.org/node/7458
    onechance
  • God, this makes me so angry. Coal is the opposite of clean, as any climate scientist will tell you. This is the biggest propaganda campaign I've ever witnessed, and I'm sure a lot of ignorant people are buying it. AGHH! Wake up people!!
    benjaminV
  • Clean coal is a total joke.
    jefftego
  • Isn't "clean coal" an oxymoron?
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    barkway
  • Thanks onechance! Clean coal is indeed an oxymoron barway!
    shroomfairy
  • There is nothing clean about it!
    googolplexer
  • We need to start a grassroots ad campaign countering these lies that the energy companies are putting out. Current should host contests for ads that speak the TRUTH!
    benjaminV
  • "Clean coal" is right up there with "military intelligence"
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    Elligirl
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  • This is why I watch MSNBC.
    current89
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71kckb8hhOQ
    "The future is later"
    jefftego
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  • How is clean coal (supposedly) different than regular coal?

    What a world of lies and deception we live in... eh?
    iameam
  • Tell the presidential candidates to stop pushing it too. They both are.
    JanforGore
  • http://current.com/items/88957365_celebrate_clean_coal_...
    But according to their ads it's something to celebrate.
    JanforGore
  • discussion over... no more comments needed...
    plusaf
  • Fuck this, youtube earthships. Get the fuck out of dodge while you still can.
    nickdaniel42
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNgGAG17rFg
    Want a glimpse of reallity? Please watch and go to the sites and help us stop it here before it gets to you. These mountains provide water for the entire southeast and beyond.
    victimofcoal
  • let me get this straight, victim..... the people of kentucky and west virginia might have been doing something else, healthier, if Big Coal hadn't come in and mining?

    ok....

    and because they sold so much cheap coal, they made too much money because they're greedy?

    but if the coal is too cheap, how come they're making too much money?
    plusaf
  • plusaf ... with all due respect (you know it's never good when someone utters those words):

    I see you sport a 'vette as your personal photo.

    Bravo.

    '76? Cannae tell, much to their marketing advantage (and the VW 'Bug' I'll add), a similar body style bode well for future 'vette sales.

    Finally, my sisters and myself convinced my only brother, Davey, to rid himself of his 'vette. It only bode poorly 'bout his weiner. No offence.

    But I digress.

    Once again, I find myself disagreeing with you. And once again, you'll not change my mind, nor
    will I change yours. I simply must comment:

    Not only is coal a poor choice for future energy needs, it's dirty. It's dirty not only because of the emmissions released into the atmosphere, but
    also dirty due to the extraction of said.

    As I've told you before ... we will not change one
    the other's opinion. I respect your opinion,
    though I cannot agree with such.

    Best to you and yours, good luck with yer penis
    ~ A
    Amber_LaStrega
  • @Amber... LOL, and thank you so much!
    no, it's a photo of a '69 7Liter (427cid) that looks JUST like my FIRST car....

    [reference... http://www.plusaf.com/vettes.htm ]

    yep, after graduation from college, i had a teeny-weenie.

    it got bigger with my next cars, my wife's overhead cam straigt-six Pontiac LeMans, then a '73 RX2 with just 70 cubic inches.... we'll ignore the Fiat Spyder [piece of crap] and the BMW Bavaria [ultimate stealth car, but too expensive to maintain], then the '87 pontiac Ventura with a built-in engine defect that it took me about two or three years to fix, followed by my '82 I-Mark Diesel by Isuzu (then down to 60-70 hp, so my weiner was getting REALLY big...), then my Luxo-Mobile, the 97 Ford Taurus [the generator behind my house has the same sized 3.0 Liter Ford engine in it!], and then the inevitable divorce, leading to the SECOND '69 corvette... this time orange, not stealth-blue... by that time my wiener was so short i had to pee sitting down...

    but then i remarried [despite the short weenie] ... i must have had other redeeming features..... and later sold both the corvette AND the Taurus to cover half the cost of my current ride, an '04 Prius which just turned 36,000 miles. Now my wiener is so big i can barely fit behind the steering wheel!!!!!


    yes, coal is ugly; kills lots more people than nuclear,which i'm sure you won't sign up for as a "second choice," and somewhere in-between lies the wet, black, oily stuff.

    my current position is: yes to solar, wind, etc.... but it takes ENERGY to GET THERE, so let's not be so narrow-minded about the whole thing as to think we can convert to solar, etc., in the next twenty minutes, let alone ten years, but it's danged stupid to think we should abandon oil until all of those solar panels are in place.

    :)))))) and i DO love my penis.... it just doesn't rule my life like it did some decade or four ago. although we did have some REALLY fun times together back when clap and pregnancy were just about all guys had to worry about as a downside to sex.

    now i get my jollies annoying fundamentalist liberals [and conservatives] on blog sites....

    ciao, y'all....
    plusaf

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