mainstream media
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The New York Times Magazine’s take on environmentalism is more interesting than most
It’s Earth Week, so the MSM is trotting out its obligatory parade of environmental coverage. The New York Times Magazine‘s green issue is better than most. Check it out: The cover story by Jon Gerter asks, Why isn’t the brain green? “Scientists are trying to figure out why it’s so hard for us to get […]
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David Broder is the sultan of the status quo, and fatally uninformed about global warming
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. That is attributed to Dante, but applies best to the Washington establishment, especially one David Broder. Part 1 looked at why the establishment media’s coverage of global warming is so fatally useless. Newsweek’s Evan Thomas unintentionally […]
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Climate change hits Australia with a vengeance
Depressing. Photo: Georgie Sharp via Flickr Despite its economic woes, The Los Angeles Times still employs some of the best environmental reporters in the business, including a personal favorite, Julie Cart, who always brings compassion (and great quotes) to her work. Her story about how climate change is devastating Australia ran this week on the […]
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An apology and an explanation for Friedman
There’s an old saying my granddad was fond of. “Dave,” he’d say, rocking his chair, puffing his pipe, squinting into the distance, “don’t be such an a**hole.” Wise words. On reflection, my post about Tom Friedman’s column ended up unnecessarily heated and confrontational, even insulting. I stand by my take on the column, but Friedman […]
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Fellow Washington Post columnist challenges George Will’s climate denial
Another Washington Post staffer has joined the pile-on against columnist George Will’s climate-change denial. Fellow columnist Eugene Robinson lambasted Will on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Wednesday night, and also called out the editors who let him get away with it. “What George Will did was cherry-pick a sentence in a report, you know, […]
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Washington Post reporters call out George Will for lying in Washington Post
[SEE UPDATE BELOW] Today, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have a piece on the alarming decline of Arctic sea ice. In and of itself the story isn’t that surprising: scientists have known for a while that the ice is declining; new data just confirms that it’s happening faster than originally estimated. […]
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George Will publishes global warming lies for a third time
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me three times, shame on the media. In a move that calls into question the journalistic integrity of the entire Washington Post editorial staff — especially editorial page editor, Fred Hiatt, who should be fired — the newspaper has published a third […]
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NYT’s Tom Friedman updates the global warming threat and spells out the solution
The NYT columnist Tom Friedman has another terrific global warming piece this past weekend, “Mother Nature’s Dow.” He is the only major national columnist or reporter consistently warning the public of what science now tells us is likely result of continuing on our current greenhouse gas emissions path — unmitigated unconscionable catastrophe. And he is […]
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Why the mainstream media’s coverage of global warming is so fatally useless, part 1
Averting catastrophic global warming requires completely overturning the status quo, changing every aspect of how we use energy — and doing so in under four decades. Failure to do so means humanity’s self-destruction, Hell and High Water. Media coverage of the problem and the solution has been dreadful (see here and here). But why? In […]