Am I wrong? Yesterday I canceled my New York Times subscription due to the hiring of

[hatrack]

6. No, you are not wrong . . .

The Times recently published an article about the importance of climate reporting. It discussed how they're recreating their climate reporting group. Why "recreating"? Well, because back in January 2013, they scrapped their dedicated environmental reporting group:

https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/the-changing-newsroom-environment/

Then they eliminated their DotEarth blog back in March of the same year:

https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/a-farewell-to-green/

Oh, but then they decided to bring back dedicated environmental coverage, gosh, over a month ago!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/insider/a-sea-change-for-climate-coverage.html

After all, in the paper’s own words, “Climate change has long been a critical area of coverage in The Times’s news report", except for a period of four years, when it wasn’t.

They're also using more graphics in their reconstituted environmental reporting, which is fine, except that the leader of the team is a graphic designer, with no scientific background, which might have been nice.