Sports Illustrated editor declines to correct the shape of the earth
From Terry McDonell’s letter from the editor in the current issue:
The magazine received
nearly 800 letters about the cover story on global warming (Going,
Going Green, March 12)–most of them taking issue with the subject
matter and suggesting that SI stick to sports and pay more attention to
business as usual…These
stories were always controversial. This time some readers suggested
they didn’t want Al Gore running the magazine. Chicken Little was also
mentioned. Other letters pointed out that Mars is warming, and one
contained a lefthanded reference to the earth’s being flat: "Why are
you buying into that stuff? There’s no more ‘scientific consensus’ on
global warming than there is that the earth is flat." The temptation,
of course, was to run a correction that read, "The earth is flat. SI regrets the error."
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