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Why we still need newspapers

By ddobbs on December 10, 2008.

From Knight Science Journalism Tracker:


Phil. Inquirer: Four part series disembowels the Bush White House version of the EPA

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Many reporters have dived pretty deep into the legal and regulatory changes wrought at the EPA in the last eight years and into the scientist-administrator Stephen Johnson who imposed them at the behest of the George W. Bush administration... But no other newspaper that the Tracker knows of has torn into the agency with as thorough, focussed and full-hearted a pummeling as seen in the Philadelphia Inquirer for four days this week. ....

Sometimes it’s good to let one’s anger show and these reporters do. The pace, enthusiasm, and rhythm of the prose is like that of a flogging of a misbehaving crewman in an old Royal Navy sailing ship.

Oh, that Lucky Jack should have such luck.

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