How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science

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How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science

Today the Huffington Post won a Pulitzer Prize. Congratulations, Huffington Post! Now you’re in the club. I’m sure the execs at the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal who failed to take home any wins this year are teeth-gnashingly jealous. But that’s not what this post is about. What it takes to win Pulitzers, most of the time, is big budgets, smart reporters, and weighty topics of national import. But most of the stories that shape our national debates, and thereby our future, are nothing like this sort of award bait. Most of those stories are more like “NASA Global Warming Stance Blasted By 49 Astronauts, Scientists Who Once Worked At Agency,” a short piece in the Huffington Post last week. This article recycled a press release announcing that a bunch of former NASA employees, including some astronauts and scientists but no climate experts, had taken issue with ...

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@SeanNorris5 » 25 Apr '12, 11am
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How @HuffingtonPost has impeded #climate #science w/ "reverse verification" tactics. [link] by @scottros via @grist
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Analyzing #climate and #science and #HuffPo's recent "verification in reverse" misstep [link]
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How Huffington Post aided a demolition job on climate science | Grist [link] (via Instapaper) /by @scottros with @jayrosen_nyu
@christackett » 18 Apr '12, 1pm
"Of course we need facts but...We need context and nuance. We need to be aware of what the game is and who’s playing." [link]
@WECANclimate » 18 Apr '12, 7am
Huffington Post taking some counterfactual views on climate science - facts, we need them! [link] @grist
@grist » 17 Apr '12, 11pm
How the now Pulitzer-garlanded Huffington Post ripped up facts that were once nailed down: [link]
@DashkaSlater » 17 Apr '12, 8pm
HuffPo gets a Pulitzer-- and a tongue lashing from Grist about its shoddy #climatechange reporting. [link]
@thecitylab » 17 Apr '12, 7pm
Grist: How HuffPo aided a demolition job on climate science. The HP has had a "troubled relationship with science". [link]
@gqrunner » 17 Apr '12, 6pm
@HuffingtonPost reproved by @scottros at @grist for bad reporting on story about #climatechange. [link]
@ghanscom » 17 Apr '12, 5pm
How HuffPo aided a demolition job on climate science [link] Good reality check from @grist honcho Scott Rosenberg
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@NobleIdeas » 17 Apr '12, 4pm
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@4589roger » 17 Apr '12, 3pm
#Huffpost "bamboozled by manipulative stunts" [link] #climate #agw
@scottros » 17 Apr '12, 2pm
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@goodlifesbp » 17 Apr '12, 11am
Interesting Grist piece on HuffPo's Pulitzer win + their "troubled relationship with science" [link]
@RouxBeee » 17 Apr '12, 7am
'Unsettled science' & 'verification in reverse': How HuffPost aided a demolition job on climate science [link] via @grist
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kinda [link] RT @travelfish: Reading HuffPo won a Pulitzer. Joke?!
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