Rebuttal

Link here to Investor's Business Daily. ("Thank you" to the reader who sent me the link.)

A major U.S. daily has shut down its environmental desk but hasn't given up its eco-elitism. Just this week it attacked the energy industry not with science or evidence but by smearing the men who bring us energy.

The closing of the New York Times' environmental desk is a "worrisome change" to Al Gore, who finds himself anxious about the newspaper's "ability to cover climate."

But Dean Baquet, managing editor for news operations, told Inside Climate News that The Times has not "lost any desire for environmental coverage" and swears shutting down the desk has nothing to do with budget matters.

Clearly the former is true. The Times has not lost its appetite for smearing conventional energy production. But maybe it's just gotten a little more sneaky about it.

It's no secret that the Times loathes the oil and gas industry. Yet, like the rest of the state-run media and the fanatical environmentalist lobby, The Times knows it can't eliminate the harvesting of America's cheap and plentiful energy.

At one time, a local regional paper in North Dakota printed a lot of Inside Climate News; in fact, it appeared the two media outlets were joined at the hip.

The article IBD refers to was posted/linked earlier, if I remember. Not worth taking the time looking for that link.

But I certainly enjoy updating this post.