mediamatters.org - 2/24/2009
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Wash. Post ombudsman compounds global warming misinformation Summary: As numerous progressive and science bloggers have noted, Washington Post columnist George Will misused data and distorted statements made by climate experts in order to suggest that human-caused global warming is not ...
cjr.org - 2/27/2009
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cjr.org —
Post stands by climate column despite widespread criticism;
clamor spills over to The New York Times...
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The George Will Affair
climateprogress.org - 2/25/2009
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climateprogress.org —
The lead climate reporter for the New York
Times, Andy Revkin, remains stuck in the he-said she-said...
school of climate journalism that typifies everything wrong with the traditional media’s coverage of the issue of the century. Indeed, if we ...
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NYT’s Revkin embraces false balance, equates Will’s ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 3/2/2009
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George Will lashes out at New York Times
reporter Andrew Revkin for “meretricious journalism” in a column...
today that attempts to justify his significant factual errors but “can’t help making new ones.” But in an interview ...
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Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt Defines George Will’s Lies ...
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Will's Climate Change Column Sparks Outrage in Environmental Community
Commondreams.org Newswire —
... for its commitment to accuracy," said Burns upon the release of the letter. "Will's column and the Post 's refusal to address its falsehoods have drawn ire from thousands of Media Matters readers and sparked outrage from esteemed leaders and members of the environmental community. Hopefully, these actions will encourage the Post to finally correct the record." The letter, a copy of which is included below, rebuts several falsehoods in Will's column. As Media Matters recently noted , Alexander reportedly responded to one of these claims with further distortions of the ...
In a journalistic blunder reminiscent of the Janet Cooke scandal, the Washington Post lets George Will reassert several climate falsehoods plus some new ones
Climate Progress —
... by any expression of skepticism about the global warming consensus (which will prevail until a diametrically different consensus comes along; see the 1970s) in the media-environmental complex. Media Matters easily refutes Will’s claim and trashes his misuse of this source — so easily that it boggles the mind anyone at the Post would let Will have made it in the first second place: But Will did not “accurately” report on the January ACRC document in either of his columns. As Media Matters and ...
Two Weeks of Intense Climate DialogueOver Columnist George Will’s Flawed Column
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media —
... blogs by Joe Romm, “ Is George Will the Most Ignorant National Columnist? “. Talking Points Memo, 2/16/09, “ Where There’s a (George) Will, There’s a Way … to Deny Global Warming “. Talking Points Memo, “ Hiatt, Will, On Global Warming Misinformation: Talk To The Hand “. Climateprogress.org 2/20/09 piece, “ The Day DC Journalism Died “. Discover Magazine Carl Zimmer 2/21/09 piece, “ You Call That Fact Checking? “. Mediamatters.org 2/22/09 piece, “ In Reported Response to Will Controversy, Wash Post Ombudsman Compounds Global ...
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