US News and World Reports’ Michael Barone, using the recent “missing lynx*” controversy as his starting point, examines the questionable way some in the media cover environmental stories:
The story about the lynx hair fakery was broken in the conservative-leaning Washington Times,** and stories on the subject appeared in the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., the Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., and the Christian Science Monitor. A Nexis search turned up nothing on the subject in The New York Times or The Washington Post. Perhaps that’s not surprising, but the stories
If Mr. Barone had bothered to check the WaPo’s archive, then he would’ve found a “lynx” story dated Dec 31, 2001 – late, but it was there.
I actually remember reading that in the Post. As I recall, it was buried toward the back of section A?
Anyways, when the Post runs a story of a potentially corrupt government department a couple of weeks after the corruption comes to light, its the same thing as their having buried the story, don’t you think? At the very least, this wasn’t a Woodward and Bernstein-like revelation.