January 11, 2013

Jumping the shark

Stick a fork in it -- it's done. From FOX News:
�Shock and anger� as New York Times eliminates environment desk
The Gray Lady�s readers are seeing red over a decision to shut down the paper�s green desk.

The New York Times plans to shutter its standalone environment �pod� -- a pool of editors and reporters dedicated to green issues and the climate -- and redistribute them to other teams. The paper�s top editors claim the move won�t affect the paper of record�s efforts to cover the climate, however.

"To both me and Jill [Abramson, executive editor], coverage of the environment is what separates the New York Times from other papers. We devote a lot of resources to it, now more than ever,� Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor for news operations, told InsideClimateNews.com. �We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage. This is purely a structural matter.�

But Margaret Sullivan, the Times' public editor, expressed dismay at the news.

"Symbolically, this is bad news. And symbolism matters � it shows a commitment and an intensity of interest in a crucially important topic," Sullivan wrote.
This reaction shows the difference between the progressive mind and the conservative mind. The bean counters are looking to cut wasted effort and save money while people like Ms. Sullivan are all about the symbolism and consider Climate Change to be a crucially important topic when in fact, it is dead as a dodo. Posted by DaveH at January 11, 2013 3:52 PM
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