As mentioned at the top of the article (the «
lede» as a true journalist would
call it), the long ball is being hit quite a bit and guess what?
Having once before fallen for a â $ œNorth Pole is melting!â $ scam, even the New York Times — on its blog, mind you, no need to tamp down alarmism on its print pages â $ «admitted that the hyperventilated headline and
lede â $ œgo way beyond what Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center tells the reporter.â $ Serreze claimed on an alarmist blog that his actual claims â $ œquickly grew out of all reasonable proportion, â $ admitting that a summer loss of ice at the North Pole â $ œsummer would be purely symbolic, but symbolism can be pretty darned powerfulâ $ (prompting an alarmist, taxpayer - servant to
call on his team to invoke such stunts more often).