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Subject: FYI: Sierra Club Launches Campaign Against Fox News
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:29:12 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 10, 2007
Contact: Kristina Johnson, Sierra Club (415) 977-5619
Tracy Fleischman, Brave New Films (310) 204-0448
http://www.sierraclub.org/pressroom/releases/pr2007-07-09.asp
Grassroots Coalition Launches Campaign to Expose Fox Network's Consistent
Pattern of Misinformation on Global Warming
Environmental, Religious, and Activist Groups Ask Home Depot to Pull Ads
A grassroots coalition of environmental, religious, and activist groups
launched a campaign today to expose the Fox News network's consistent
pattern of spreading misinformation about global warming. As part of the
campaign, the coalition is urging Home Depot--a company that says it cares
about the environment--to stop advertising on Fox.
The campaign, led by the Sierra Club and Robert Greenwald's Brave New
Films, includes a YouTube video called Fox Attacks: The Environment
exposing Fox's pattern of misinformation, and an online petition to Home
Depot -- both located at www.FoxAttacks.com. The broad coalition behind the
campaign includes environmental, religious, and online activist groups
including MoveOn.org Civic Action.
"Fox consistently spreads misinformation about global warming and denies
the problem exists," said Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope. "We
have a very real, urgent problem that scientists tell us we need to respond
to immediately. The fact that Fox is ignoring widely accepted science on
global warming is irresponsible and dangerous. Fox is effectively
accelerating global warming by delaying efforts to solve the problem."
"Any company that cares about the environment should be disturbed by Fox's
consistent pattern of spreading misinformation about global warming and
should not support Fox with advertising dollars," said director Robert
Greenwald, whose Brave New Films produced the three-minute YouTube video
documenting Fox's inaccurate reporting on the environment.
"Fox Attacks: The Environment reveals the shocking extent to which the
network intentionally spreads misinformation. The video exposes CEO Rupert
Murdoch's claim that he is fighting global warming while Fox does the exact
opposite by consistently spreading misinformation on the issue," Greenwald
said. "Home Depot needs to decide: Will they just talk the talk on global
warming, or will they walk the walk by stopping advertising on Fox?"
The video includes Fox anchors and commentators arguing that trees cause
more pollution than cars, reporters saying there is no scientific evidence
for climate change, that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and repeated
references to global warming as "a hoax."
In recent months, presidential candidates John Edwards, Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson, and Chris Dodd have all refused to appear
in Fox-sponsored debates because of the increasing consensus that Fox is
not a legitimate news organization.
Today, Sierra Club, Brave New Films, Progressive Christians Uniting, the
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, American Family Voices,
Campaign for America's Future, Campus Progress, the California Council of
Churches, the National Organization of Women, and MoveOn.org Civic Action
urged the public to sign a petition to Home Depot asking them to also
reject Fox.
Home Depot recently began advertising products identified with an
environmentally-friendly "eco options" label. The company also says it
supports building green homes, planting trees, and is working to offset
carbon emissions from company headquarters in Georgia., the coalition is
calling on Home Depot to demonstrate its commitment to the environment by
pulling ads from Fox. A petition addressed to the company says, "If Home
Depot is serious about protecting the environment, they must stop
advertising on Fox -- a network that consistently spreads misinformation
about and denies the existence of global warming."
"The most meaningful action companies like Home Depot can take to help the
planet is to make sure the public knows the truth about global warming.
That means rejecting Fox's pattern of misinformation," Carl Pope said.
The Fox Attacks the Environment video is part of a series produced by Brave
New Films that includes Fox Attacks: Black America and Fox Attacks: Obama.
To view the video documenting Fox's attack on the environment, visit
www.FoxAttacks.com.
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