Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Newsweek: A magazine in the journalistic sense

Newsweek issues a strange sort of mea culpa in their latest issue, and it's on the subject of our global climate. The global climate of the 1970's to be exact. They hark back to their April 1975 article which warned America of the dangers of global cooling. The gist of the article is that while they were wrong in the 1970's as regards to the world's future temperature this time they really, really, really know what their talking about. In fact (surprise) they tell us they weren't actually wrong in 1975... in fact most the column is about how...

...the story wasn't "wrong" in the journalistic sense of "inaccurate."

Wasn't "wrong in the journalistic sense." I'll have to remember that one.

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