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To: Sully- who wrote (8040)	3/11/2005 5:19:24 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

CNN: Lying with pictures Mick Stockinger March 11, 2005 I was reading how Artic drilling foes lose initial Senate battle on CNN.com and I noted the picture attached to the story. The picture's caption reads: <<< Musk ox graze in an area proposed as a possible site for oil exploration inside Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. >>> Hmmm. Considering that the proposed drill site is on the coastal plain and that the Brooks range is nearly over the horizon, at the southern edge of ANWR wilderness area, I would say that this is a flat-out lie. The western border of ANWR corresponds to the contours of the Canning river as it flows into the Beaufort sea. This is a major flood plain and the proposed site is some distance east of the Canning. The nearest peak of the Brooks range is approximately 50 miles (80 km) from the proposed drill site. That peak is 5000 ft high which means that it would be visible from 140 km. it would be visible--on a very clear day, but barely. The picture accompanying the CNN article was taken in the foothills of the Brooks range, probably 30-40 miles from the proposed drill site. There are actually two kinds of deception going on here. The site may well have been included in a 1987 proposal to congress, but it bears no relevance to the current ANWR drilling proposal. Captioning the photo makes me very suspicious that this is no inadvertant mistake or simple sloppiness. Aside from the equivocation on which proposal is being discussed, I believe CNN inserted this photograph because it has a much more appealing esthetic than the coastal plain where the facility is actually proposed to be built. Tundra just doesn't tug at the heart strings the way snow-capped mountains do. It is no surprise that CNN claims objectivity while injecting its biases, but rarely is it so blatant. CNN--we report, we decide. [To provide some perspective, I include this photo, taken near the American Fork canyon in Utah, looking east. This picture was taken from high elevation, but atmospheric conditions appear to be about the same. The mountains on the horizon are about 30 miles distance, while the mountains in the foreground are about five miles away.] Posted by Mick Stockinger uncorrelated.com

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