News flash: media smart enough to see through Bush greenwash

Well, all of them except Gregg Easterbrook, who complains in The New Republic Online today that the media have not devoted enough attention to the Bush administration's 2004 initiative to cut emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. The media is focusing on the administration's lack of support for the Kyoto carbon treaty instead, writes Easterbrook, because reporting on the methane initiative would cause "inconvenient complications of the Black Hat versus White Hat narrative it has settled into regarding global warming."

Mr. Easterbrook, if reporters don't devote time and energy to reporting extensively about the Bush administration's feeble attempts at greenwashing itself, that's because the enviros got to them first and made them see reason. The media is a battlefield and I am proud and satisfied to see the Bush EPA's truth-distorting, attention-diverting press releases lying bloody and mangled in the no-man's-land of page A24.