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Memo to media: Don't be suckered by bad analyses from the Breakthrough Institute the way Time, WSJ, NPR, and The New Republic have been

Posted on May 22, 2009

I can't imagine why any serious journalist would cite the work of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) except to debunk it. As we'll see once again, they constantly misstate and misrepresent what others say, and generally put out very bad analysis designed to push their anti-climate-action, anti-environmental agenda.So why do journalists cite them? Simple the media love contrarians. So if you convince the media you are, say, part of the progressive environmental movement, you can get all the media attention you want by then trashing your supposed allies.I would ignore TBI if the media ...

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