Beck, Pethokoukis cited Marshall Institute's cap-and-trade study, ignored its ExxonMobil funding

Media Matters | Mar. 4, 2009 (News Analysis)

Glenn Beck and James Pethokoukis each cited a study by the George C. Marshall Institute to criticize the carbon cap-and-trade system described in President Obama's budget proposal. But neither Beck nor Pethokoukis noted that the Marshall Institute has received funding from ExxonMobil. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 4, 2009

The journalistic checking on the ethics of airing partial corporate studies without attribution is helpful to journalism.

Fox is a shill for rich corporations, flunking journalistic ethics once more.

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