| The New York Times had egg on its face August 29 when the Old Gray Lady was
forced to retract an alarmist front-page story of August 19 that flatly
stated the North Pole is melting. Not true, as the paper was later forced
to concede. But readers on August 19 were treated to a scare story that led
with this sentence: ?The North Pole is melting.? The photograph that ran
with the above-the-fold article was captioned: ?A lecturer on a tourist
cruise captured this view of open water at the North Pole, a sight
presumably never before seen by humans.? |