During the news summary on Thursday July 17, 2008, Jim Lehrer misrepresented Al Gore’s recommendations for developing cleaner energy sources. Lehrer said this:
“Former Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation today to turn to clean sources of power within ten years. He said the U.S. should switch from oil and gas to generate electricity and to wind, sun, nuclear, and other forms.”
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Gore never mentioned nuclear. Here’s a portion of Gore’s speech where he recommends clean sources:
“What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don’t cause pollution and are abundantly available right here at home?
We have such fuels. Scientists have confirmed that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world’s energy needs for a full year. Tapping just a small portion of this solar energy could provide all of the electricity America uses.
And enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to also meet 100 percent of US electricity demand. Geothermal energy, similarly, is capable of providing enormous supplies of electricity for America.
The quickest, cheapest and best way to start using all this renewable energy is in the production of electricity. In fact, we can start right now using solar power, wind power and geothermal power to make electricity for our homes and businesses.”
Gore’s complete speech is available here.
Jim Lehrer grouped wind, solar and nuclear together as “clean sources of power,” Al Gore did not. Gore recommended wind, solar and geothermal. Was it an innocent mistake on Lehrer’s part? I don’t know, but for him to attribute nuclear advocacy to the Nobel Prize winner Al Gore is a nice little piece of salesmanship on behalf of the nuclear industry.
But it’s false advertising.
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Wow, even on PBS.
“Former Vice President Al Gore challenged the nation today to turn to clean sources of power within ten years. He said the U.S. should switch from oil and gas to generate electricity and to wind, sun, nuclear, and other forms.”
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Gore never mentioned nuclear. Here’s a portion of Gore’s speech where he recommends clean sources:
“What if we could use fuels that are not expensive, don’t cause pollution and are abundantly available right here at home?
We have such fuels. Scientists have confirmed that enough solar energy falls on the surface of the earth every 40 minutes to meet 100 percent of the entire world’s energy needs for a full year. Tapping just a small portion of this solar energy could provide all of the electricity America uses.
And enough wind power blows through the Midwest corridor every day to also meet 100 percent of US electricity demand. Geothermal energy, similarly, is capable of providing enormous supplies of electricity for America.
The quickest, cheapest and best way to start using all this renewable energy is in the production of electricity. In fact, we can start right now using solar power, wind power and geothermal power to make electricity for our homes and businesses.”
Gore’s complete speech is available here.
Jim Lehrer grouped wind, solar and nuclear together as “clean sources of power,” Al Gore did not. Gore recommended wind, solar and geothermal. Was it an innocent mistake on Lehrer’s part? I don’t know, but for him to attribute nuclear advocacy to the Nobel Prize winner Al Gore is a nice little piece of salesmanship on behalf of the nuclear industry.
But it’s false advertising.
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Wow, even on PBS.
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- JanforGore
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The revolving door!
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hah! I remember this. and i remember thinking, "I didn't hear him say anything about nuclear."
glad the mistake was caught. Of course it wasn't intentional. News Hour w/Jim Lehrer wouldn't do that on purpose.
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- stephenthomson
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Yes I wonder, I too was aware of this bait and hook with the "Nuclear word" used... The editor musts works for dpowa plant!
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