Discover magazine blogger Carl Zimmer is less than please with the Washington Post’s willingness to let fact fall out the window in the opinion section:
One of the more egregious lines from George Will’s recent columns on global warming is the claim that real data shows that warnings about a rise in the average global temperature are wrong. He writes: “According to the U.N. World Meteorological Organization, there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade.”
The secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization himself, Michael Jarraud, decided he had to write to the Washington Post to tell them George Will is wrong.
The real question: should opinion sections be subject to the same fact-checking rules as news sections?
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If this were an editorial running on one of my opinion pages? Hell yes I’d fact-check it (in fact, I used to do this all the time at my college newspaper).
As a consumer of news? I didn’t read WaPo’s opinion page to begin with and I’m not likely to start doing so now.
Yes, because people definitely read them as a news source. It saves time. Why bother to read a (whole!) news article and think about it enough (gasp!) to form your own opinion when you can just jump on a smart person’s bandwagon?