If you’re reading CleanTechnica (which you are), there’s a good chance you already “get” the key points of this story, but it seems that much of the population doesn’t benefit from your understanding. Hence the following article.
Warning: this is a cautionary tale about mainstream news media, distortions, and beating others to the punch. It is also followed after many paragraphs by a CleanTechnica fundraising pitch. Of course, regarding the mainstream media frustration, we are very well aware that we are preaching to the choir here. CleanTechnica is made up of independent journalists, writers, and enthusiasts. We write, talk, and film for independent media outlets. As such, we don’t owe allegiance to companies, executives, editors (well, sort of — right, Zach?), or ideologies. Nor do we bow to any lobby groups.
The New York Times, which now bills itself as the purveyor of “truth,” decided perhaps it had too much of a liberal bias, so it went out and secured the services of a former Wall Street Journal editorial writer named Bret Stephens.
