BobKohn http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7350/all en Kudos: The Times Gets It Right in Lead on BP Oil Spill http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/kudos-times-gets-it-right-lead-bp-oil-spill <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Nothing vague about this lead to a front-page story: &quot;Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating....&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Thursday's front-page enterprise piece on the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, by Justin Gillis, "Scientists Fault Lack of Studies Over Gulf Spill," was noteworthy in that it named the Obama administration in the lead - in a negative fashion.<br /><br /></p><blockquote><p>Tensions between the <b>Obama administration</b> and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill's true scope.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/kudos-times-gets-it-right-lead-bp-oil-spill" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch BobKohn GulfOilSpill JustinGillis LeadSentence liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias TimesWatch Thu, 20 May 2010 18:46:00 +0000 admin 7590 at http://archive2.mrc.org