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| WHY ISN'T 5 MOST LIBERAL, INSTEAD OF 4 MOST CONSERVATIVE? |
| Tuesday, April 03, 2007 |
| CBS on Ruling: 5 Non-Ideologues v 4 'Most Conservative' Justices Reporting on the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that the EPA has a "statutory obligation" to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from motor vehicles, CBS's Wyatt Andrews on Monday night avoided labeling those in the majority while describing those in dissent as "the Court's most conservative justices." CBS and NBC led by championing the narrow ruling, but NBC's Pete Williams, as well as ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg in a story a few minutes into World News, managed to avoided ideological tagging. Andrews began his CBS Evening News story by stressing how, "in a hard slap to the administration, the Supreme Court ruled the EPA does have authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollution. Justice John Paul Stevens writes [text on screen]: 'The harms associated with climate change are serious' and that EPA's political reasons for inaction are illegal, 'arbitrary,' he wrote, 'capricious...or otherwise not in accordance with law.'" After not labeling Stevens or any of the four justices who joined his opinion, Andrews concluded by pointing out how "this was a 5-to-4 decision with the Court's most conservative justices dissenting. But you can still add the Supreme Court to the list of voices advocating action on global warming." Labels: media bias |
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