Yglesias has this completely backwards:
Fred Hiatt Wants The Washington Post to Go Out of Business. What other explanation could there be for deciding that he wants to run an op-ed by Sarah Palin about how Obama should “boycott” the Copenhagen conference?Sure, the WaPo's decision to publish an op-ed by Sarah Palin's ghostwriter—that can charitably be described as misleading and more accurately categorized as total bullshit—isn't good for journalism. Palin is rolling with the premise that the "the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point" after "leading climate 'experts' deliberately destroyed records" and "manipulated data to ‘hide the decline’ in global temperatures." This of course isn't true. The science community agrees the earth is getting warmer and people are to blame. Hiatt undoubtedly knows this but he'd much rather garner the attention, Web hits and verbal sparing a Palin editorial creates than worry about the accuracy of her opinion. I happen to think that fact-checking in a newspaper should extend to the editorial page. Hiatt clearly does not. But in a perverse way he wins, because here I am talking about his green-lighting propaganda under the guise of journalistic opinion writing.
