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Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth |
| Al Gore has spent most of his adult life concerned about, among other things, our global climate, what we are doing to affect it, and what might be the consequences. He, along with many scientists and concerned citizens, has been frustrated by a general indifference by most and downright antagonism by some to any suggestion that there might be a problem. When he suddenly found himself out of work, he knuckled down and found a way to get the message out without using the dysfunctional established information infrastructure. Aside from the hard work, long hours, extensive research, and persuasive presentation, the persistence and inspiration to find another way earns him an Algae for demonstrating the breadth and depth of the irrelevance of our mainstream media in serving its watchdog role. We should not have needed the movie! The growing crisis should have been covered out of a sense of obligation to inform the people of how their government's policies were flawed. Instead they fought it until they were overwhelmed by the propensity of evidence, and now, having been washed over by the Al Gore tsunami, they are grudgingly admitting he may have a point. Eventually, some 2-3 years after it matters, they will be parrotting the conventional wisdom as if they had ferreted it out with "investigative journalism" |
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Double Award: Book: "An Inconvenient Truth" Movie: "An Inconvenient Truth" |