- Merchants of Doubt
The Tribune modestly chose an outside reviewer to write up the new documentary Merchants of Doubt; I greatly doubt the Trib‘s own critic, Michael Phillips, would have composed a paragraph as careless as this one—which is from Kenneth Turan of the LA Times:
In the very same way, says Merchants, the fossil fuel industry now denies that air pollution has anything to do with global warming. It doesn’t just deny; it’s somehow turned denial into a “tribal” marker; if you claim to be a God-fearing conservative American but don’t deny climate change, you betray your tribe.
