yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
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For those who are late to the party, recently George Will wrote a column claiming, most broadly, that in the 1970s there was a scientific consensus that the world was suffering from “global cooling” that was as firm as the current consensus about global warming. This is false . ...
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The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process" I haven't
written about George Will's factually challenged column from last...
Sunday, but I have been following the various refutations of mistakes he made. I have also been following the various ...
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The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process"
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/22/2009
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The following has been sent to Autumn Brewington,
op-ed page editor for the Washington Post, Fred Hiatt,...
editorial page editor of The Washington Post, Alan Shearer, editorial director of The Washington Post Writers Group, and Andy Alexander, ...
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A Suggested Correction For Will’s ‘Dark Green ...
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Post Ombudsman Responds, Unconvincingly, On Will Column
TPMMuckraker —
... But engaging at this level of detail is sort of beside the point. As the Post knows, every reputable scientific organization that has studied the issue has confirmed that global warming is occurring. Will's column was intended to mislead readers into believing that not to be true. That's the case whether or not it contained a statement that meets the Post's criteria for factual inaccuracy.
Late Update: Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress says it better than we could:
As for why it's okay for Will to write stuff that ...
A Problem for Everyone Who Works for the Washington Post
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Matthew Yglesias: Washington Post Stands By Climate Change Denialism: Yesterday, the Post finally responded to complaints about [George Will's climate change denialism] column[s], sending a reply to my colleague Brad Johnson that stands foresquare behind Will, citing the existence of a “multi-layered” process to check the facts in the article. As for why it’s okay for Will to write stuff that isn’t true, the Post didn’t have much of substance to say. They picked one of debunked subsidiary claims, and said they think Will is right, though they ...
Washington Post -- Own Up To It
Seeing the Forest —
... , If Will actually read these two articles, it's hard to see how he's not being deliberately deceptive by citing them as he did. If, as I suspect, he just got them from some set of climate change denialist talking points and didn't bother to actually check them out for himself, he's being irresponsible. Matthew Yglesias, Washington Post Stands By Climate Change Denialism , This started as a problem for Will, his direct supervisors, and the Post’s ombudsman. But now that the Post as a paper is standing behind Will’s deceptions, I think it’s a problem for all the other people ...
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