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huffingtonpost.com - 2/27/2009
Josh Dorner: Will-ful Deceit at the Washington Post
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The earth may be warming at an ever-quickening pace, but it's the climate blogoshpere that's been burning white hot this week. After years of soft-pedaling the science around global warming and actively abetting the Bush administration's strategy of sowing doubt about the problem, it seemed like the media had more or less gotten its act together when it comes to reporting on climate change. This past couple weeks, however, we got an unfortunate reminder that denialism is alive and well on the ...
cjr.org - 2/27/2009
The George Will Affair
— cjr.org — Post stands by climate column despite widespread criticism; clamor spills over to The New York Times... (more) The George Will Affair

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climateprogress.org - 2/25/2009
NYT’s Revkin embraces false balance, equates Will’s active disinformation with Gore’s effort to ...
— 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 ... (more) NYT’s Revkin embraces false balance, equates Will’s ...

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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 3/2/2009
Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt Defines George Will’s Lies As ‘Inferences’
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt Defines George Will’s Lies ...

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DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science:  George Will and Journalistic Malpractice

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George Will and Journalistic Malpractice
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... Caught in a series of factual errors or outright lies about climate science, Washington Post columnist George Will has upped the ante for himself and his employer in his latest column on global warming. ...

Ethical Limbo at the Washington Post
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — ... The Post’s star columnist was caught in a series of egregious errors about his understanding of climate science (or lack thereof). ...

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