The outrage over the oil studies is not that their results are compromised, but that the results showed the existence of man-made climate change, and the companies chose to keep those results secret and try to profit off climate change rather than inform the public
Every time you hear about Big Oil finding a climate change study, or in the past when tobacco companies funded research on the effects of smoking, the results are always assumed to be compromised.
Governments directly fund news agencies, though, and everything is A-OK! 
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Assuming that’s true, that means that government paid news agencies will cover up government corruption in order to continue getting their paycheques
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You are equivocating governments with private corporations. This doesn't logically flow since corporations have a central goal of self-interest, but governments are designed to be aimed towards public good. Some corrupt and/or authoritarian governments would do this, but not all
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Governments natural goal is to get bigger. Every head of a government department wants more funding.
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I agree that governments have issues, but megacorporations having control over information and research can be far more harmful, as shown by this example
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Doesn't refute Stephan's point that government control of news is bad
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It does point out that the alternative to government funding of news media is control by megacorporations, which I contend is worse for the body politic
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no true journalist takes govt subsidies
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Govt also funds climate science.
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...Not only that, the gvt directly funds the entities that conduct these global warming studies!
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And public schools and universities, and their Econ departments in particular
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That's High Level Logic. Not sure how many even hear the whooshing sound as it goes over their heads.
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Conflict of interests should provoke skepticism and prompt people to scrutinize the findings. That said, climate change certainly cannot be blamed the use of oil for energy.
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The common denominator. People.
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Same for capitalism and communism. Or any organization. Ethics and morality seriously tested under any model.
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BTW Stephan, loved the interview in NZ with that hack journalist. It was brutal.
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And “climate scientists” too
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