{"id":908,"date":"2011-09-08T19:53:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:53:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T13:53:31","slug":"climate-change-coverage-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/08\/climate-change-coverage-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Coverage in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I have decidedly mixed feelings about most of our media, no matter how much I read or watch it, as I imagine most of us do. (I make a point to read CNN just to see the latest blather of the neconservative\/supposedly liberal media at work. Fox News? I can&#8217;t stoop that low.) But this morning I&#8217;m heartened to notice the continued coverage of climate change in the NY Times, evidenced by these two articles. The first is about the Republican denial of climate change, here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/07\/opinion\/in-the-land-of-denial-on-climate-change.html?_r=1&#038;src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s an easy target to hit, but I&#8217;m glad to see them summing up the various candidates blatant conservative pandering\/stupidity so well. And this morning they offer a more difficult pill to swallow, directed toward the believers like myself\u2014and everyone, actually, here:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/08\/opinion\/going-green-but-getting-nowhere.html?ref=opinion<br \/>\nThese two opposing points of view illustrate the difficult choices we face. The Times is standing out as a pillar of intelligence in the dumbed-down world of mass media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have decidedly mixed feelings about most of our media, no matter how much I read or watch it, as I imagine most of us do. (I make a point to read CNN just to see the latest blather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/08\/climate-change-coverage-in-the-ny-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}