The only major Tucson-area newspaper not hacking the living daylights out of itself has a new issue out and online. Feel free to comment on the issue here!

This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 5, 2007.

8 replies on “Another Week, Another ‘Weekly’”

  2. I just read the scary-ass cover story. Them’s some fancy graphics!

    I don’t really get the photo of the author with the compost-eating grin revealing his enormous set of chompers. If you read the story and then look at his picture you’ll understand where I’m coming from. What the hell is he smiling about?

    I expect the Tucson Weekly will get some letters from “skeptics” who doubt his numbers and facts are on the up-and-up. I guess if we want citations and background info we can go to his linked websites, but I would have liked a reference to where he’s getting his info.

    It isn’t that I doubt it, it is just that when you make a statement like “areas of Antarctica the size of California are melting away each week!” you might want to bolster that for good measure. Most people don’t even have a firm enough grasp on geography to realize how much larger Antarctica is than California.

    One thing I find objectionable is his insistence that Katrina, the California wildfires, and widespread drought are directly attributable to global warming. It could be true, but the verdict is not yet in. Even a mainstream climate expert wouldn’t go so far as to say, definitively, that “Katrina is the result of global warming.” Only that global warming will likely lead to more devastating hurricanes like Katrina.

    Al Gore once said, “I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is.” I’m not sure if he specifically meant exaggerating claims, or merely belaboring the importance of the subject (which one could hardly belabor too much). But if he meant the former, hopefully he and others will learn that this will backfire and give fuel to the (politically motivated) skeptics.

    Based on the facts given in this article, the situation seems pretty hopeless. China and India WILL become more industrialized, their citizens WILL buy more cars — hundreds of thousands more cars — and there’s little we can do to stop it, especially while Dopey is still in office.

  3. Very disappointed in the Skinny this week. A weird blow by blow of another “who cares” GOP debate and another promo for Project White House-yippee! Nothing on the Dem election trial (and it is a public records request trial), swearing in of 2 new council members, or anything local. Media watch, however, is great. Again, the TW should snap up Beidel. This town needs a good watch dog reporter.

  4. Retro: Sorry to disappoint! We had two stories on the Dem previewing the election trial last week and it started on the same day of the Skinny’s deadline, so there wasn’t much opportunity to stake out new territory there. We talked about the new council members–and the outgoing ones–in The Skinny last week as well, and mentioned ’em in The Range this week.

    If you launch a presidential campaign as part of Project White House, you could promise America a better Skinny every week!

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