Word: columnizing
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Emma M. Lind ’09, a former Crimson editorial chair, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Raúl A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...refused to censure Will for the piece. Not only that, he echoed approvingly the Post editorial board’s statement that it “checks facts to the fullest extent possible” and even defended one of Will’s more egregious lies from the column...
...February 19, 2009, it is acceptable to lie in the pages of the Washington Post. There is no other way to interpret the e-mail that the paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, sent to reporter Pat Johnson that day, excusing a blatantly error-riddled column on global warming by George Will that the Post had published earlier in the week...
...obvious defense—that Will’s is an opinion piece—strains credulity. The objection to Will’s piece is not ideological; indeed, it is highly doubtful that an intellectually honest column arguing against a cap-and-trade system or carbon tax would have provoked a similar uproar. The objection is rather to Will’s repeated mischaracterization of his sources in support of assertions that are simply erroneous. The piece’s presence on the op-ed page does not excuse the editors of the Post’s decision...