It seems that hypocrisy is the order of the day around here. This time, the New York Times is balking at giving space to the hacked emails concerning “global warming” because they were “illegally gotten.” From the NY Times Earth Blog:

The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.

Then the “blogger” gives a link to “plenty of sources” where you could read the emails and documents. Naturally, as legitimate bloggers around the web report on the story, the writer, Andrew Revkin, gets defensive:

The line above has been widely interpreted below and around the Web as implying that The Times is laying off looking into these documents even as the paper has been quick to publish or report on other documents of uncertain provenance. A quick scan of the original news story and these posts shows that we’re actively reporting on and citing these documents. And of course there’s more to come.

But you still haven’t published the emails that show that these eco-terrorist scientists have fudged the data to push their “global warming” theory.

The comments in this Volokh Conspiracy post are priceless and deserve your reading. By now you all know that the NY Times has about as much validity in claiming to be an unbiased news source as Chris “tingle me” Matthews and Keith Olbermann have. The readers there provide plenty of anecdotes about the NY Times publishing private or ill-be-gotten emails and other info when it discredits Republicans, Bush, theories they don’t support.

Meanwhile, I still don’t see anything about this scientific hoax being reported on NBC or NPR or CNN. No wonder they’ve lost readers/viewers and are going broke.