burn notice - We have a New "Paper of Record"

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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For my money, if there be such an animal, the nation’s “paper of record” is the Washington Post, not the New York Times. Case in point:

On Monday morning, WaPo exposed Nancy Pelosi’s green-hued fraud:

In November, the Democratic-led House spent about $89,000 on so-called carbon offsets. This purchase was supposed to cancel out greenhouse-gas emissions from House buildings — including half of the U.S. Capitol — by triggering an equal reduction in emissions elsewhere. Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent. Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived. “It didn’t change much behavior that wasn’t going to happen anyway,” said Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who writes a blog calling for more aggressive action on climate change. “It just, I think, demonstrated why offsets are controversial and possibly pointless. . . . This is a waste of taxpayer money.”

The Post has also reported a major story on Russian dissident Oleg Kozlovsky, drafted into the army to silence him; the NYT has ignored both events.

Meanwhile, one day after endorsing Barack Obama for president, the NYT ran not one, not two, but three front-page news stories on its website touting their candidate (without mentioning, of course, that he was their candidate) and piled on top of that an oped by Caroline Kennedy (we’ve already discussed its ludicrous premise) endorsing their man as “like my father.”

It seems that the Very Gray Lady had abandoned all pretense of objectivity and become an openly partisan screed no different than the Daily Kos. And indeed, rivaling the DK in blatant, seething hatred of America, it has been prominently tout
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