tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664957094233317169.post9050916809884215770..comments2023-12-26T05:33:56.740-05:00Comments on John Hanger's Facts of The Day: Franklin Center Files Complaint Against NYT Gas ReporterJohn Hangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06565915866938789295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664957094233317169.post-87035334510221622572011-09-18T16:00:15.761-04:002011-09-18T16:00:15.761-04:00Doesn't anyone notice that all of the bad stuf...Doesn't anyone notice that all of the bad stuff promised by Propublica, Gasland and the NYT never seems to happen in any significant way? Where has anyone been poisoned by frack chemicals? Where is the water radioactive due to waste water? Who has died or been made sick due to fracking? Where have water withdrawals caused a problem? Where is the actual evidence that this is a Ponzi scheme? <br /><br />Lots of conjecture but no real evidence to support these allegations.Concerned Scientistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664957094233317169.post-42085171888891470232011-09-16T14:34:20.085-04:002011-09-16T14:34:20.085-04:00To underline your point, the NYT gas reporter has ...To underline your point, the NYT gas reporter has never gone back and told his readers strongly, clearly that the water at the tap and the water in the stream in Pa have now been proven multiple times to meet all safe drinking water standards for radionuclides. He wrote one story that touched on an early test and clouded up for him the "bad news" revealed by the tests by mixing the test result with other items in the same story. He never reported on the Pennsylvania American Water Company results of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority results. The results were too radioactive to his credibility to print.<br /><br />The NYT Gas Reporter is now a celebrity. My refusal to use his name is a futile effort to prevent that. So much reporting has been corrupted by so many forces. But one of the forces is that reporter's themselves have figured out that the path to riches is to become a celebrity-reporter. He is invited onto radio shows and to give lectures at prestigious universities like Cornell. You are right that it has worked out well for him.john hangerhttp://www.johnhanger.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4664957094233317169.post-67568641373376172282011-09-16T14:23:02.004-04:002011-09-16T14:23:02.004-04:00Good to see them taking it to the NYT gas reporter...Good to see them taking it to the NYT gas reporter. The Ponzi scheme articles were terrible, but I thought the radioactivity article was the worst. It was equally dishonest, terribly sourced and really scared a lot of good people who deserve better. <br /><br />I like the word they use: dissemble. I kind of thought that I knew what it meant but I looked it up and the definition I found is "Conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs"<br /><br />That is exactly what is going on here. These are advocacy pieces disguised as news that are designed to confuse rather than inform and (first and foremost?) promote the career of the reporter. It has worked very well until now.Concerned Scientistnoreply@blogger.com