On the Media's Bob Garfield recently discussed the NY Times magazine's Freeman Dyson profile with Joe Romm. You can count on Romenesko to capture the best moment in the exchange: ROMM: What The New York Times Magazine has done is elevate Dyson to a very high degree of credibility as a highly credible source on global warming, which he isn't.
GARFIELD:
Wow, I so can't believe we've read the same story. The story I read didn't promote his opinions in any fashion, such as you're describing. Take a moment to read the entire transcript, which includes Garfield's interview with Nicholas Dawidoff, the author of the Dyson piece. Garfield also rebuts the smear tactics waged against Dawidoff:
While Romm and others may be rightfully aggrieved by what they deem to be the legitimization of wild climate theories, their accusation that Nicholas Dawidoff is a sportswriter and therefore unfit to profile Freeman ...
