mediamatters.org - 2/27/2009
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WaPo goes all in Published Thu, Feb 26, 2009 9:32pm ET by Jamison Foser The Washington Post lost $192 million last year. This is not a newspaper that can afford to alienate its readership. And yet, the Post is going all-in on George Will's credibility . For the past week, Will and the ...
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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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 —
... columnists can’t make inferences which you disagree with–and, you know, they want to run a campaign online to pressure newspapers into suppressing minority views on this subject–I think that’s really inappropriate. It may well be that he is drawing inferences from data that most scientists reject— so, you know, fine, I welcome anyone to make that point. But don’t make it by suggesting that George Will shouldn’t be allowed to make the contrary point. Debate him.” As Media Matters writes : But this controversy is not about “inferences” by Will with which others “disagree.” It ...
George Will Doubles Down on Global Warming Distortions
Commondreams.org Newswire —
... Summary: Journalism is not complicated. Honest. But sometimes people practicing it pretend that it is. They pretend that it's very complicated and that every fact has nine different sides and it's impossible-- impossible --to figure out what the truth really is. And because it's impossible, who's to say who's right and who's wrong. Who's to say what's correct and what's incorrect. It's all open for debate. Media Matters ...
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