I don't know about TV news, which I rarely pay attention to, but I did spot an article on this on Stuff.co.nz.

It is a real shame to see scientists do this. Although I consider myself a skeptic, I am not a climate change "skeptic" - a terrible misuse of the word, as there is ample evidence for climate change and indeed ample evidence of it being caused by mankind. However this evidence is complicated. It's appropriate to defer your opinion to that of experts in such a situation - to take the climate scientists at their word. You might think that the experts could be lying - a grand conspiracy. But given the thousands of climate scientists such a conspiracy would have to involve - who are almost all in perfect agreement about the fact of climate change, although they argue over certain details - such a conspiracy is ridiculously unlikely.

But despite this, people are all to ready to mistrust experts, and the media has done a lot to show "both sides of the story", despite only one side - the scientists side - being supported by fact.

The scientists who sent these e-mails appear to have engaged not in a grand conspiracy to lie, but a smaller conspiracy to convey the data in a way that is easier for non-experts to understand. This wouldn't be such a problem if it weren't that they were doing so under their work not as private advocates, but as members of the IPCC.

Scientists should be allowed to both report scientific facts and advocate their views to the public, but by mixing the two together, they have made the IPCC look like a non-scientific entity, and jeopardized the message they were trying to get across.