L.A. Times Bans Climate Deniers - Newspapers NOT printing “factual inaccuracies” – what a concept!

[kpete]

L.A. Times Bans Climate Deniers - When Will the Rest of the Media Follow Suit?


Editor Paul Thorton was admirably simple and direct on this point:

When deciding which letters should run among hundreds on such weighty matters as climate change, I must rely on the experts -- in other words, those scientists with advanced degrees who undertake tedious research and rigorous peer review.

And those scientists have provided ample evidence that human activity is indeed linked to climate change. Just last month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- a body made up of the world's top climate scientists -- said it was 95% certain that we fossil-fuel-burning humans are driving global warming. The debate right now isn't whether this evidence exists (clearly, it does) but what this evidence means for us.

Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published. Saying "there's no sign humans have caused climate change" is not stating an opinion, it's asserting a factual inaccuracy.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-climate-change-letters-20131008,0,871615.story
http://www.bluevirginia.us/diary/10393/la-times-bans-climate-deniers-when-will-the-rest-of-the-media-follow-suit

[jsr]

1. Recommend

[Jefferson23]

2. He is doing the right thing, and polite about it, too. I would have said, the LA Times

is all done with allowing stupid fucking lies.

Good for them.

[dickthegrouch]

3. How do we get them to do the same thing for Obamacare?

Republicons have been stating factual inaccuracies about that all along.

And, while we're at it, let's stop printing lies of any kind.

[mindwalker_i]

4. Too bad he can't also kick the submitters in the nuts

The world is sick and tired of bullshitters.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. The authors of this crap just added to the unemployment figures.