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N.Y. Times and Elisabeth Rosenthal Face Credibility Siege over Unbalanced Climate Coverage « Climate Progress

The NYT has published arguably its worst climate story ever, "U.N. Climate Panel and Chief Face Credibility Siege," by Elisabeth Rosenthal.

Dr. Robert J. Brulle of Drexel University, whom the NYT itself quoted last year as "an expert on environmental communications," emailed me that the piece is "the worst, one sided reporting I have ever seen."  When I called him up, he went further saying:

In this article, the New York Times has become an echo-chamber for the climate disinformation movement.

You might think it impossible for any newspaper -- let alone the one-time "paper of record" -- to run a story raising "accusations of scientific sloppiness" about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that never quotes a single climate scientist.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 04:04:12 PM EST
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The NYT lost the plot over issues of bias a long long time ago. It sold its soul to PNAC and Judy Miller and it's been downhill ever since

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Feb 9th, 2010 at 06:25:38 PM EST
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It goes back longer that that. I recently saw an article about how they won a Pulitzer back in 1945 for an article "disproving" the existence of radiation sickness. In fact, apart from that period in the 1970s when they published the Pentagon Papers, I'm starting to wonder if they ever had a soul to sell in the first place.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 02:48:28 AM EST
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