Michael Goldfarb notes the rich irony of the New York Times declining to publish the Climategate emails. Never mind that the people writing the emails have had an inordinate influence on environmental policies around the world, created a global industry, and bamboozled millions with false data. It just wouldn’t be fair to report the fraud that they didn’t intend to make public.
Of course, when the choice is between publishing classified information that might endanger the lives of U.S. troops in the field or intelligence programs vital to national security, that information is published without hesitation by the nation’s paper of record. But in this case — the documents were “never intended for the public eye,” so the New York Times will take a pass.
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