The New York Times is increasingly using the term “denier” to describe people who are skeptical of man-made global warming.rWhat do you think?
Margaret Sullivan, the Times’ public editor, told the liberal blog Media Matters that “denier” is a “stronger term” to use when “someone is challenging established science.” Sullivan said “the Times is moving in a good direction” on using this harsher label of global warming skeptics, adding that the paper “perhaps should be doing it even more.”rWhat do you think?
Sullivan has written on the issue before, and in her interview likened the debate over how to label skeptics to how The New York Times eventually started labelling “enhanced interrogation techniques” as torture.rWhat do you think?
“After a long time the Times came around to calling it torture and I thought that was a very good thing. I think we’re sort of in the same realm with the business about skeptics and deniers,” Sullivan said.rWhat do you think?
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/22/ny-times-using-denier-to-describe-global-warming-skeptics/#ixzz3dsksF06r