To the editor:
Jean Shepherd, the great raconteur, used to say “I don’t make the news, I just report it.” Well, that may have been a bit of a fib but those days are long gone in journalism. The closer to an important election, the more the liberal “news” media spin.
Articles in the April 30 Ledger-Transcript tout the man-made global warming scare by three “local experts” with no articles in opposition: the first expert, a member of the Peterborough Energy Committee, citing “scientists,” proclaims we have only 11 years to act (in 2006, Al Gore said we only had 10); the second, a former political candidate, essentially advocates taxpayers subsidize his solar business; the third a “carpenter, farmer, naturalist.” The first two make personally unqualified claims of linkage between fossil fuels and global warming. The third merely describes his utopian dreams. Experts indeed!
On April 2, an article was published about a local entrepreneur seeking, essentially, to reinvent the stone axe: an external-heat-source Brayton-cycle engine. The great innovation of the internal-combustion engine, which spelled the doom of all automotive external-combustion engines, was placing combustion within the working fluid itself, solving the heat transfer and, consequently, power limitations of practically sized external heat source engines. The article reports this “entrepreneur” is tapping the taxpayers for some $3 million to rediscover ancient knowledge for himself. Editorial fact checking is out the window when a story promotes liberal agendas like “renewable” energy.
On May 28, a letter was published, once again by a high school student, whose hand was no doubt guided by her progressive “teacher,” making unqualified claims linking various disasters to carbon and scolding us to act against climate change. Is it no longer true “children should be seen, not heard”? Anyone remember the Hitlerjugend ? History does repeat itself.
Ross Wilkinson
Wilton