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6. Think Progress - After hyping itself as antidote to fake news, NYT hires extreme climate denier

I cancelled my NY Times article a month ago after the NY Times hired Bret Stephens who then wrote an article explaining that the science behind climate change was still debatable, because Hillary Clinton lost, so how can you trust data? Yes, the NY Times actually published this crap. The NY Times has sold out by trying to be "fair and balanced" by pushing false equivalency.

https://thinkprogress.org/new-york-times-hires-extreme-climate-denier-after-hyping-itself-as-antidote-to-fake-news-441826c4071d

The New York Times — which advertises itself as a defender of truth in the Trump era — just hired an extreme denier of climate science as a columnist.

Bret Stephens was most recently deputy editorial page editor for Rupert Murdoch’s deeply conservative and climate-denying Wall Street Journal, where, in 2015, he wrote that climate change — along with hunger in America, campus rape statistics, and institutionalized racism— are “imaginary enemies.” He will now take those views to the New York Times.

Stephens is unusually extreme and divisive even for a climate science denier, also comparing scientists and those who accept their findings to Stalinists, anti-semites, and communists.

The scientific findings that Stephens has repeatedly dismissed as “imaginary” are routinely published in the New York Times itself. And in an August job description, the New York Times called climate change “the most important story in the world.” Stephens calls it “hysteria.”