ENVIRONMENT 08/01/2018 06:10 pm ET Updated 1 hour ago The story laments a lost opportunity when climate change was a bipartisan issue from 1979 to 1989. But another bipartisan change was happening too. By Alexander C. Kaufman It’s obvious why controversy engulfed The New York Times Magazine’s 31,000-word opus on climate change before it was even published online Wednesday morning. The story, titled “Losing Earth,” takes an ambitiously nuanced stab at anthropogenic global warming. Writer Nathaniel Rich chronicles the years from 1979 to 1989, a window when the science made clear that greenhouse gases were warming the planet and the fossil fuel industry’s big-tobacco-style misinformation campaign hadn’t yet warped the debate or weaponized the Republican Party into full-scale denial. The story is a rumination on regret, a deliberate attempt to step beyond the orthodoxies of climate messaging of clear-cut villains and urgent calls for … [Read more...] about The Real Missing Villain In The New York Times Magazine’s 31,000-Word Climate Opus
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The New York Times Fails to Name and Shame Climate Villains
Lisa Blue/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The New York Times Magazine has just published an ambitious and heavily-promoted issue entitled “Losing Earth,” which is entirely devoted to telling a single complicated story: How the world missed its window to address climate change. Nathaniel Rich’s historical narrative looks at the politicians, scientists, public officials, and others who, from 1979 to 1989, were central to raising the alarm on a subject that scientists had already been studying for years. In revealing the choices they did and did not make, Rich pinpoints the markers that led us to today, in which the attempt to address climate change is a story of failure. George Steinmetz’s photography of receding glaciers and extreme weather around the world accompanying the issue is a window to the consequences of largely ignoring the early … [Read more...] about The New York Times Fails to Name and Shame Climate Villains
‘New York Times’ Publisher Reveals Asking Trump To Decrease Anti-Media Rhetoric Except Against Those Fuckers At ‘The Washington Post’
WASHINGTON—Citing the potential dangers of continued White House attacks on media outlets, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger revealed Sunday that he asked President Trump to decrease his anti-media rhetoric during their July 20 meeting, excepting those made against “those fuckers at The Washington Post.” “We urged him to back off of reporters and editors who are performing not just their jobs for their respective news organizations, but a valuable public service, and as members of a free press in a free country, should not have to feel their lives are at risk. I also entreated him to to join us in uniting against those WaPo shitasses,” said Sulzberger, emphasizing that Washington Post journalists should not be exempt from being mercilessly ridiculed by Trump and anyone who consumes media. “Using the term ‘fake news’ is harmful for all non-Washington Post staffers involved and creates an unsafe adversarial atmosphere that should be … [Read more...] about ‘New York Times’ Publisher Reveals Asking Trump To Decrease Anti-Media Rhetoric Except Against Those Fuckers At ‘The Washington Post’
Minnesota playwright’s musical called a ‘woke throwback’ in New York Times review
Actor Eden Espinosa as Tamara de Lempicka in 'Lempicka.' Photo by Daniel Rader. On her way to a Sunday matinee performance of her new musical, “Lempicka,” playwright Carson Kreitzer sounded like she was having an out-of-body experience. “I’m a word person and all of this has left me word-less,” she said Sunday from Williamstown, Mass., where the show that she’s worked on for seven years is having its premiere. “It’s indescribable.” “Lempicka,” for which Kreitzer wrote the book and lyrics, is the big musical at the Williamstown (Mass.) Theater Festival. Its subject is free-spirited, celebrity Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), a media magnet who, in some ways, prefigured pop star Madonna. Lempicka's life has an epic sweep. Born in Poland, she married into Russian aristocracy and became a Paris-based portrait painter for the uppercrust. She was a total free spirit who took female lovers. Lempicka … [Read more...] about Minnesota playwright’s musical called a ‘woke throwback’ in New York Times review
The New York Times kneecaps Walker Stapleton
The New York Times, “Gray Lady,” may want to check a mirror for an orange hue. The hit piece it ran on Colorado candidate for governor Walker Stapleton earlier this week seemed almost Trumpian. The president the Times loves to hate could only be more proud if the article had come out in a stream of 280 character bursts. The Times article details the Ku Klux Klan affiliation of Stapleton’s great-grandfather, Benjamin Stapleton — Denver’s former mayor and a man who died decades before Stapleton himself was born. If the article had stuck to Benjamin Stapleton, and the legitimate discussion of neighborhoods and schools named after him, I might have a different opinion. But the Times didn’t. In fact, its lede paragraph doesn’t mention Benjamin Stapleton at all. The entire focus is on Walker Stapleton. That’s how you know the author’s primary goal, the issue she wanted front and center in her reader’s mind, was her public … [Read more...] about The New York Times kneecaps Walker Stapleton