Why do Americans think so little of the mainstream press?
The New York Times epitomizes the principal reason why Americans hold journalism in such low esteem.
The public expects objective reporting on the critical issues of energy and climate. But that's not what they get from the NYT and other mainstream outlets.
Instead, as Bjorn Lomberg documents, this NYT's reporter is more interested in being an advocate, an anti-CO2 activist instead of reporting the actual facts and known science. He delivers a form of corrupted journalism, and that's why he needs to employ catastrophic scenarios with exaggerations, myths, urban legends, distortions, lies and whatever else it takes to scare the public.