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 Texas and Regulation A front-page New York Times headline declares, "After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation." Less wary of regulation, apparently, are the New York Times reporters and editors, who engage in a misleading use of statistics to try to advance their case for additional regulations (though the Times acknowledges somewhere in the middle of the article that "it is impossible to know whether tougher regulations would have prevented the disaster," and toward the end that the fertilizer plant that exploded "fell under the purview of at least seven state or federal regulatory agencies.")  Michelle Rhee and Racial Tensions From a New York Times article on the resignation of the schools chancellor in Washington, D.C., Michelle Rhee: "Replacing Ms. Rhee, who is Korean-American, with Ms. Henderson, who is black, is expected to ease racial tensions." NYT on Natural Gas and Fracking The Independent Petroleum Association of America has a pretty good point-by-point takedown of the New York Times's piece over the weekend suggesting that the American natural gas industry is an Enron-style fraud. My favorite part of the IPAA critique is the light it shines on the Times's sources. From the Times:
From the IPAA: More on the NYT Natural Gas Story At RealClearPolitics, Jon Entine has more on that New York Times piece from over the weekend about natural gas, the one we posted about earlier here. Mr. Entine writes: Loose Ends A couple of items that deserve follow-up: After Friday's post on President Obama's snub of the Dalai Lama, Mr. Obama did on Saturday welcome the Tibetan to the White House. Ellen Bork has details. And after the two posts here on the New York Times and "fracking" for natural gas, the Times's Public Editor took the issue up in a column over the weekend, siding with the critics: "such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for a reasoned explanation of the other side and more clarity about its focus. ...the article went out on a limb, lacked an in-depth dissenting view in the text and should have made clear that shale gas had boomed." Richard L. Berke, the Times's national editor, defended the story: "we would not change a word." Texas and Regulation A front-page New York Times headline declares, "After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation." Less wary of regulation, apparently, are the New York Times reporters and editors, who engage in a misleading use of statistics to try to advance their case for additional regulations (though the Times acknowledges somewhere in the middle of the article that "it is impossible to know whether tougher regulations would have prevented the disaster," and toward the end that the fertilizer plant that exploded "fell under the purview of at least seven state or federal regulatory agencies.") Loose Ends A couple of items that deserve follow-up: After Friday's post on President Obama's snub of the Dalai Lama, Mr. Obama did on Saturday welcome the Tibetan to the White House. Ellen Bork has details. And after the two posts here on the New York Times and "fracking" for natural gas, the Times's Public Editor took the issue up in a column over the weekend, siding with the critics: "such a pointed article needed more convincing substantiation, more space for a reasoned explanation of the other side and more clarity about its focus. ...the article went out on a limb, lacked an in-depth dissenting view in the text and should have made clear that shale gas had boomed." Richard L. Berke, the Times's national editor, defended the story: "we would not change a word." More on the NYT Natural Gas Story At RealClearPolitics, Jon Entine has more on that New York Times piece from over the weekend about natural gas, the one we posted about earlier here. Mr. Entine writes: NYT on Natural Gas and Fracking The Independent Petroleum Association of America has a pretty good point-by-point takedown of the New York Times's piece over the weekend suggesting that the American natural gas industry is an Enron-style fraud. My favorite part of the IPAA critique is the light it shines on the Times's sources. From the Times:
From the IPAA: Michelle Rhee and Racial Tensions From a New York Times article on the resignation of the schools chancellor in Washington, D.C., Michelle Rhee: "Replacing Ms. Rhee, who is Korean-American, with Ms. Henderson, who is black, is expected to ease racial tensions."
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