On Tuesday, The Washington Post’s Health & Science section was headed by a story contending global warming skeptics need a psychologist.
David Fahrenthold
By Tim Graham | December 8, 2009 | 11:58 AM EST
By Tim Graham | December 5, 2009 | 9:23 AM EST
The Washington Post put ClimateGate on the front page, top left in Saturday’s edition. It’s also the top story at washingtonpost.com. The headline is "In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate." The website summary: "E-mails stolen from British research center show climate-change leaders noting flaws in their own data and seemingly scheming to muzzle critics."Wow. The story is breaking. Here’s paragraph two of the David Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin story:
By Ken Shepherd | November 11, 2009 | 6:10 PM EST
<p>Imagine if you will, that during the prior presidential administration two EPA employees put up a video on YouTube that criticized environmental and energy policies supported by Republicans in Congress and President Bush, only to be told by EPA officials that they need to take down the video. </p><p>Given the media's consternation about the Bush administration's alleged efforts to squelch proponents of the theory of manmade global warming, such a story would likely be front page news in many newspapers, including the Washington Post.</p><p>But in this instance, the administration in question is Obama's, and the EPA employees are going at the president from his left flank, arguing the so called "cap-and-trade" plan would "lock in climate degradation."</p><p>Despite this, the Washington Post placed David Fahrenthold's November 11 story, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR200911... target="_blank">"EPA tells workers to tone down YouTube clip about climate bill"</a> on page A8:</p><blockquote>
By Ken Shepherd | April 20, 2009 | 11:30 AM EDT
NBC News has had its over-the-top Green Week and ABC has seriously chronicled the ludicrous exploits of "No Impact Man" and a Los Angeles man who composts his own garbage in his basement.
But rarely if ever do the mainstream media present green enthusiasts as, to put this delicately, difficult people with whom to live under the same roof.
So on behalf of NewsBusters, here's kudos to the Washington Posts's David Fahrenthold, for today's front-pager, "D.C. Area Families Take Green to the Extreme," in which he documents, among others, a man who harangues his sister to bathe with a bucket to catch the shower water for reuse for laundry loads:
By Ken Shepherd | January 18, 2009 | 8:09 PM EST
"The president-elect popped into a party at Bobby Van's restaurant, as well as The Washington Post's newsroom, where hard-bitten journalists fumbled for their cellphone cameras and reached for his hand."
So noted Post staffer Paul Schwartzman in his January 18 Metro section front-pager "Mr. Obama's (Giddy) Neighborhood." Yet for a supposedly hard-bitten bunch, the Posties sure are giddy over Obama.
Elsewhere on the Metro front page: "Driven to Obamaville by Something 'Bigger Than Us,'" -- columnist Marc Fisher's look at Obama fans camping out in an RV park north of Washington, D.C. -- and David Fahrenthold's "Visitors Pour Into D.C., Loaded With Luggage, But Lightened by Hope."
Hard-bitten journalists? Only if it's Chris Matthews that's been doing the biting.