The Washington Post Corrects, Disingenuously

08 Apr 2014 John Hinderake

On March 20, the Washington Post published an article by Steven Mufson and Julie Eilperin, the import of which was that Koch Industries is the driving force behind the Keystone Pipeline. The article, based entirely on a six-month-old report by a far-left group called the International Forum on Globalization that I demolished last October, was headlined, “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.” The piece’s point was summarized succinctly in a quote by a spokesman for IFG: “IFG’s intention is to demonstrate the Koch-Keystone connection.”

I critiqued the Post story here, pointing out that Koch Industries has neither supported or opposed the pipeline nor lobbied for it or against it…..Koch Industries, in short, has nothing at all to do with the Keystone Pipeline.

Still unanswered is the question why it was published……So I am going to make another attempt….I urge you to do the same. Let’s make it impossible for the Post to ignore us. Please send politely-worded emails to the following people, asking them to furnish the information that I requested in this post:

juliet.eilperin@washpost.com
steven.mufson@washpost.com
readers@washpost.com
emilio.garcia-ruiz@washpost.com
martin.baron@washpost.com

You can also tweet Martin Baron, the paper’s Executive Editor, at @PostBaron.

 

To get the full impact of what is being said please read the entire article.