[identity profile] randwolf.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! Now, if only the New York Times would stop quoting the Competitive Enterprise Institute, as if they knew anything.

[identity profile] catsittingstill.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's that damned tendency to substitute "he said, she said" for, you know, actual fairness and balance. Which, done right, would be learning the truth and reporting that.

[identity profile] randwolf.livejournal.com 2010-07-03 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
As Paul Krugman said, if GW Bush said, "The world is flat," the next day the headlines would read, "Opinions differ on shape of earth." I wish the newspapers would "get it," already. I don't understand why NYT reporters go to the CEI, or why their editors let quotes from them into print. The CEI is no more credible than the flat-earthers, and I don't see why any publication which wants to claim intellectual respectability gives them any more ink than the flat-earthers.