Tag Archives: George Will

NYT Slams Gore for Relying on NYT

Posted on 02/27/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias (2/25/09) hits the Washington Post for "standing behind the claim that up is down if George Will says that is"–and then spreads some of the blame around: Meanwhile, one of the Post's main competitors in … Continue reading →

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Challenging George Will's Reign of Climate Error

Posted on 02/25/2009 by Isabel Macdonald

After eight years of George W. Bush's rule, popular disapproval of policies that had come to be regarded as grave mistakes–from the invasion of Iraq to the response to the economic crisis–drove the Republicans from power. Unfortunately, the media system … Continue reading →

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George Will: Bringing You Climate Disinformation Since 1992

Posted on 02/19/2009 by Steve Rendall

George Will's history of misquoting data to distort the climate change debate goes back nearly two decades–that we know of. As Extra! reported in 2003, in 1992Will trashed Al Gore (Washington Post, 9/3/92) for being "cavalier with the truth" in … Continue reading →

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Noam Chomsky Excavates the George Will Memory Hole

Posted on 02/18/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

In a blog post about how it must have been "So Much Nicer To Be George Will Before The Internet" (2/17/09), A Tiny Revolution's Jonathan Schwarz looks back over how "on Sunday George Will made things up so he can … Continue reading →

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Action Alert: George Will's Climate Change Baloney

Posted on 02/18/2009 by Jim Naureckas

In the wake of a George Will column (Washington Post, 2/15/08) attempting to refute the reality of climate change with a string of inaccurate claims, FAIR has an action alert calling on media activists to write to the Washington Post … Continue reading →

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Howard Kurtz and the 'Liberal' Weeklies

Posted on 01/20/2009 by Peter Hart

On Monday (1/19/09), Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz took a look at the health of Time and Newsweek, and almost immediately rendered a political judgment: The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated … Continue reading →

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