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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1014127)5/2/2017 8:57:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1574043
 
This sounds like you:

Just asking questions. Why so rude?

The New York Times should not have hired climate change bullshitter Bret Stephens
It’s time for the opinion page to take climate change as seriously as the paper’s reporters do.

Stephens is playing a bit part in a very, very old strategy. It goes like this:

Q: “We’re just asking questions.”]
A: [questions answered]
Q: “We’re just asking questions.”
A: “Yeah, we answered those. Here’s a link.”
Q: “We’re just asking questions.”
A: “We answered the questions. A bunch of times. Please acknowledge our answers.”
Q: “We’re just asking questions.”
A: “Okay, we went back over our answers, double-checked and peer-reviewed them, compiled them in a series of reports with easy-to-read summaries, all of which we have broken down into digestible bits via various blog posts and visual aids.”
Q: “We’re just asking questions.”
A: “It’s beginning to seem like you don’t really care about this issue and are just jerking us around.”
Q: “Hey, we’re just asking questions! Galileo asked questions, didn’t he? Why are you being so intolerant and rude?”

Everyone who has written about climate change on the internet has gone through this ringer dozens of times. Yet relatively few people in US politics or media follow climate closely, or know much about it, so when they do tune in to these controversies, all they see is, heck, some fellas askin’ questions. That a crime?

It is a tiresome game. It’s difficult to see how NYT readers will benefit from it.


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