Poor misunderstood Bob Lutz. How dare Lutz be castigated for stating that “Global warming is a crock of s*%t!” After all, he follow this with “”Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not a climate denier.” This is, in essence, the opening for an atrociously error-filled Business week column by Ed Wallace that piles misrepresentation on top of […]
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Business Week Careless About Facts in Misrepresentation of Climate Science
January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism
Somewhere Between Falsehoods and Science, Fred Hiatt finds truth?
December 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Within journalism, there is a real challenge. Are there, truly, two sides to every issue? Should all voices be treated equally? Do journalists have a responsibility to assess statements for truthfulness or is the job simply to be a transcriber and “reporter” of whatever is told to them? How can one be “objective”, be “honest”, […]
Tags: Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism · Washington Post
Fred Hiatt jumps the shark in dragging Washington Post into the sewers: Publishes Sarah Palin OPED contradicted by links within the OPED
December 8th, 2009 · 15 Comments
As someone weaned on the Watergate-era Washington Post, The Washington Post opinion section has been abysmal in its ‘faux and balanced’ nature in recent years. And, it is sinking to a new low in its fostering of a ClimateGate era. Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt’s utter disdain for truthful discourse has been evidenced not […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · George Will · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism · truthiness · Washington Post
Distorting David Frum weighs in on ClimateGATE/Swifthack
December 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Linked from CNN.com’s home page, David Frm weighs in with a disingenuous discussion of ClimateGATE (SwiftHack) with The Distorted Global Warming Debate that is a combination of truthful insight and distorting truthiness. Frum’s argument that the United States (and, well, likely elsewhere) is descending into self-ghettoization intellectually, with people seeking ‘facts’ that support their beliefs […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · journalism · republican party · skeptic · truthiness
Does John Broder know that Media Matters exists?
December 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
The head of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit, Professor Phil Jones, has stepped aside from his directorship for a temporary period to enable a faster and more comprehensive investigation of the Center’s electronic security and of how he (and others) managed the CRU (and their email correspondence) in the face of determined […]
Tags: anti-science syndrome · climate change · climate delayers · Congress · Energy · energy efficiency · James Inhofe · jim hansen · journalism · political symbols · politics
It came from a blogger …
June 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Yesterday, President Barack Obama had a daytime press conference that is being viewed with outrage by many in the media world. That ‘outrage’ is manufactured and displaying ignorance. Obama presaged the questioning with a statement that included much discussion of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act which is going to be up […]
Tags: barack obama · journalism · Washington Post
George Will writes, Will-ful Disdain for Facts
May 19th, 2009 · 5 Comments
George Will has a pattern for Will-ful disdain for facts if they get in the way with his ideological agenda. Will’s latest column is filled with disdain directed at Secretary of Transportation Roy Lahood. Very briefly, two examples of factual errors. Will-ful disdain for truth: “Does [LaHood] think 0.01 percent of Americans will ever regularly […]
Tags: Energy · journalism
Hiatt Again Stands Up For Will-Ful Deceit
April 29th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Facing dissent from within The Washington Post, dissent that has gone public in many ways, and with the Post editorial board implicitly having rebuked George Will’s repeated Will-ful deceit in multiple ways, Washington Post opinion page editor Fred Hiatt was pitched a softball question in an online chat enabling him to undo some of the […]
Tags: climate change · Global Warming · journalism
Hiattian Climate Deception Strikes Post OPED Section Again
April 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Fred Hiatt’s studied journalistic malpractice in his mismanagement of the Washington Post editorial pages when it comes to the energy and climate domain merits a name. Just as the specifics related to George Will’s serial deceptions mounted into The Will Affai, the serial “faux and balanced” nature of WashPost opinion pieces on energy and climate […]
Tags: journalism · renewable fuel · Solar Energy · truthiness · wind power
NY Times: ‘He Says, She Says’ … who are we to judge?
April 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The New York Times seems to exude, at times, jealousy for the Washington Post for The Will Affair. Why should The Post be singled out, some at the Gray Lady must be thinking think, for shoddy journalistic approaches when it comes to Global Warming issues? Caught throughout his career at serial deception after serial deception, […]
Tags: climate change · climate delayers · energy efficiency · environmental · Global Warming · global warming deniers · government energy policy · journalism