According to Zachary Roth, George Will and The Washington Post Writers’ Group are doubling up when it comes to disinformation and truthiness when it comes to Global Warming issues. Roth got an early look at tomorrow’s (late tonight’s) Will column. [Now published.] We thought we were done with the topic of George Will and climate […]
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Will’s whining … defending the indefensible …
February 26th, 2009 · 10 Comments
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism
NY Times standing in solidarity with Washington Post
February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Ideological conservatives hold The New York Times and The Washington Post to be beneath contempt, as poster children of their bizaare conceptions of media thease are supposed bastions of liberal bias. When it comes to climate change issues, however, The Washington Post (and, more seriously, Washington Post Writers’ Group) embrace of “fair and balanced” rather […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · Global Warming · global warming deniers · Obama Administration · truthiness
Will-ful Deceit: three blunt examples
February 21st, 2009 · 14 Comments
As discussed in WashPost: Complicit in Disformation (or explicit collaboration)?, last Sunday’s George Will column was a disgraceful example of distorted discussion of climate change issues. This deceitful piece and the Washington Post’s seeming backing of it has created an uproar through the blogosphere that is seriously questioning what this sort of shoddy editorial management […]
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WashPost Embraces Will-Ful Deceit
February 21st, 2009 · Comments Off on WashPost Embraces Will-Ful Deceit
[NOTE: 5 March 09: For a more up-to-date bibliograpy, see: The Will Affair … struggling to keep up.] The Washington Post editors are, in essence, going silent when it comes to George Will’s use of their pages for disinformation on global warming issues. And, from that silence, the Post’s Ombudsman emerged to embrace the Will-ful […]
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Media “Fair and Balanced” extraordinaire
February 19th, 2009 · Comments Off on Media “Fair and Balanced” extraordinaire
Oregonians, represented by some of the better politicians when it comes to energy and climate issues, were served up a rather distasteful stew of “Fair and Balanced” reporting by Scott Learn of The Oregonian the other day. In Dueling global warming studies heat up Oregon’s debate, Learn makes Faux News proud by presented a University […]
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Will-ful Deception = No Fact Checking
February 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
George Will’s Carbon Power Brokers stands in a long-line of examples of The Washington Post giving space to global warming denial disinformation. How bad was this one? Bad enough that one of the cited sources had to step up to respond to Will’s distortion on a holiday. Will wrote As global levels of sea ice […]
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WashPost: Complicit in Disformation (or explicit collaboration)?
February 15th, 2009 · 20 Comments
The Washington Post has a strong history of being “fair and balanced” within its pages when it comes to Global Warming issues, providing column inch after column inch of space to those actively seeking to deceive when it comes to what might (what likely will be) the most critical issue for this century. Without question, […]
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Ignorance on public display: Tupper’s inanity re climate change
February 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Ignorance on public display: Tupper’s inanity re climate change
Joe Romm, in his book Hell and High Water, had this to say about why we should be cautious about meteorologists talking about Global Warming/Catastrophic Climate Change. Asking a meteorologist to explain the cause of recent extreme weather is like asking your family doctor what the chances are for an avian flu pandemic in the […]
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Climate Change: Debunking a Denier
February 9th, 2009 · Comments Off on Climate Change: Debunking a Denier
A guest post from Gooch who took the time (and emotion) to provide a comprehensive and impressively polite reproach to a denier’s disingenuous argument. To the extent that someone is an ‘honest’ skeptic, this provides the substance to change a mind that is ‘open’ to truth. Enjoy … and learn. I got an email from […]
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Huffington Post should pay attention to Michael Moore
February 3rd, 2009 · 9 Comments
few know that [Michael] Moore was the editor of the liberal Mother Jones in 1986 — for four short months. He was fired from the publication for refusing to print an article critizing the human rights record of the Sandista government in Nicaragua. Moore didn’t balk because of any solidarity with the communist regime, but […]
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