The Real Impacts of Media Bias

Ann McElhinney was not always a conservative; in fact, she was once quite liberal.

McElhinney was a journalist called to cover a story about a Canadian mining company in Romania. “What was really bizarre about this,” McElhinney said, “was that the BBC, CNN, the New York Times covered this story of this evil mining company; evil Canadians were going to destroy Transylvania and bring nothing but bad things, and two heroic, wonderful women-two environmentalists…were single-handedly defending the rights of the natives who were unable to speak for themselves…who were basically too stupid to understand this awful thing that was going to happen to them.”

Environmental Extremism has cost millions of lives in Africa

McElhinney described her feelings upon finding out that the Canadian mining company had saved the Transylvanians working for it. That experience, she said, changed her life. She used to think that environmentalism was cute, but it “ain’t so cute anymore,” she said. “Big environment is getting away with murder.”

The murder McElhinney referred to was that of the hundreds of Africans that die every day as a result of America’s ban on DDT. Rachel Carson, the original environmentalist, made her mark on the world by getting the substance banned; DDT is the single most effective pesticide for Anopheles mosquitos, the main carriers of malaria in Africa, and it has no side effects whatsoever for humans or other mammals. The effects of DDT on birds have been greatly exaggerated as well, as McElhinney noted.

Because DDT was banned, today over 370 children die daily of malaria in Uganda alone. “This is one hundred percent unnecessary death,” McElhinney argued.

Read More: BY ALLIE WINEGAR DUZETT, Accuracy in Media

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