An article in today’s New York Times laments the difficulty of “building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.”

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David Boaz makes an excellent point about media coverage of President Obama’s health care proposal:

The media tendency to refer to the defeat of a big-government scheme as “failure” reflects a possibly unconscious bias toward government action.

Well put. Why not make it conscious, then? Call it truth in advertising.

An objective media would be nice. But we are unlikely to ever see such a thing. Even the very best reporters are human. And humans are biased. Different people are biased in different ways,…

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