CJR supposed critique of Gleick omits that he was Chairman of the AGU Ethics Task Force, focuses instead on CJR author's personal belief in AGW hypothesis

CJR's web page states: "Strong Press, Strong Democracy"

3/1/12, "Heartland, Gleick, and Media Law," CJR, Curtis Brainard (Brainard is "editor of The Observatory, CJR's online critique of science and environment reporting.") "Experts weigh in on leaks and deceptive tactics"

The topic is deception but CJR waits until the 9th paragraph to mention in passing that Gleick held a position related to ethics which he resigned after his confession. That description by CJR might even be described as deceptive. CJR says, "He resigned from the American Geophysical Union’s scientific ethics committee." CJR kindly allows a commenter to fill readers in on the fact that Gleick wasn't just "on the ethics committee:"

"#1 Posted by Mike H on Thu 1 Mar 2012 at 02:46 PM

"There’s a phrase for what Gleick did: wire fraud. Whether or not he is indicted on it is another story, but its pretty clear cut.

All the more ironic considering Gleick was the chairman of the American Geophysical Union ethics taskforce. But the spin on this is nice: the ends justify the means."

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Gleick was the founding Chairman of this ethics committee in November 2011.

CJR devotes the all important early part of the article to the topic of AGW rather than the crime. The author even states--incorrectly--that AGW exists and that Heartland (which operates on pennies compared to the billions of US tax dollars confiscated to prop up the global warming industry including academic institutions) is in effect perpetrating a life-threatening lie. 

Accordingly, to CJR it's key that some of the documents were "authentic." CJR also frames the victim as perpetrating a fraud, since according to CJR, AGW exists:

"In the process, it (Heartland) implicitly acknowledged the authenticity of the others, which revealed, among other things, a plan to create a “global warming curriculum for K-12 schools” that would teach students—incorrectly—that “there is a major controversy over whether or not humans are changing the weather.”

CJR doesn't mention that Gleick functions on US taxpayer dollars via EPA and other grants or that the organization he robbed was private and not reliant on taxpayer millions and billions as Gleick is.

CJR fails to mention that Gleick functioned as an adviser to the US government as a representative of the multi-trillion dollar 'climate' industry that is financed world wide mainly be government confiscation of tax dollars. He spoke before the US Senate in 2007 and said our industry was the cause of catastrophic man made global warming.

CJR doesn't wonder why Gleick hasn't been arrested. In fact, they say no one can say a crime has been committed:

"That said, there is no law that prohibits individuals from misrepresenting themselves except in very specific situations (many states have, for instance, made it a crime to impersonate a police officer). Neither, to the best of Levine’s knowledge, is there a law that says it is a crime or a civil wrong for somebody to impersonate another for the purpose of getting information to disseminate to third parties, whether it’s the public or the press, except in very specific situations." (p.2)

and

"For now, it’s impossible to say whether or not Gleick violated any law, though Heartland certainly alleges that he did." (p. 3)

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11/22/11, "AGU's new task force on scientific ethics and integrity begins work," AGU, Peter Gleick