New York Times editor Jill Abramson rebuts Arthur Brisbane bias charge - POLITICO.com

The executive editor of the New York Times is disputing an accusation of liberal bias made by her very own public editor, Arthur Brisbane.

In his final column for the Times, Brisbane wrote that his fellow staffers "share a kind of political and cultural progressivism" that "virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times." Brisbane even argued that Times reporters approached some liberal issues, like gay marriage and the Occupy movement, "more like causes than news subjects."

- Bishop Hill blog - Climategate and the exclusionary principle

[Garud et al] From such a perspective, the ongoing process of questioning and probing that we witnessed with so much vigor in the case of Climategate is the very epitome of “science in action” (Latour, 1987). Those who question the conclusions of science (and thereby open up taken-for-granted and black-boxed conclusions) are not releasing unknown evils. Rather, it is only through such critiques that we can find hope, in the form of new possibilities and reconfigurations (Garud and Ahlstrom 1997; Latour 1999). It is at moments such as these, when the results of the scientific enterprise are called into question, that the scientific process is at its best, telling us not what should be done, but opening up new possibilities about what could be done (Singleton 1996).

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