About a week later, I posted about how the NYTimes had reported that a method being used to try and stop the spill had been tried a year earlier on a spill in Australia. So much for the "freak occurrence" theory, huh?
Well, in the latest in flippity-floppity behavior from the "Old Gray Lady (with Alzheimer's)" comes an editorial on NYTimes.com yesterday that not only admits our dependence on fossil fuels must be cut, but that proof comes in the pudding of "the oil-slicked Gulf of Mexico" and "in China’s aggressive efforts to win the global competition for green technologies and green jobs. And, most urgently, it can be found in the inexorable math of accumulating greenhouse gas emissions."
But what takes the cake in harmful behavior from the Times is their very next paragraph:
And where is the Senate? After a year of talking, utterly nowhere. Paralyzed by partisanship, hobbled by indifferent leadership, it is unable to muster a majority (much less a filibuster-proof 60 votes) for even a modest energy and climate bill.
It's pretty sad to see newspapers engage in the same blatant hypocrisy and contradiction that we see so many Republicans and Tea-Partiers take part in.
Like how the Non-Dems in the USG and the citizens of the "Glenn Beck Nation" talk about how Obama is becoming fascist and hiking taxes and removing freedoms, all without acknowledging that Bush had been doing that for years before they woke up, the NYTimes is dodging its own responsibility to the truth and to it's readers by failing to be honest about what it has said and what the reality is.
Not one month ago, they were calling for continued drilling:
As nerve-racking and potentially destructive as this spill is, it is not sufficient cause to abandon a broader energy strategy that includes the search for conventional fuels.
How about some responsible reporting, NYT? So, people wonder why the print media is dying?
It's not JUST because of the Internet. It's also because you guys have done a crap-job! First in giving Bush an easy time getting us into two wars, then not doing enough to take him down after so many apparent war crimes were discovered and reported on *by you*. Now the Obama administration oversees the worst oil spill since the Valdez and your first reaction is to editorialize that we should keep drilling. Then it takes you weeks to report on BP's lack of permits and weeks to come out in favor of alternative energy. And don't forget the many weeks it took you to bother to research whether the USG's estimate of the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf each day was even accurate!
Please start charging for your news. I need an excuse to stop reading you.
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