June 08, 2002

RECYCLING ALERT: Charles Rich says a recent CNN story on the environmental impact of cellphones came straight from an enviro-group's press release -- even retaining an obvious arithmetic howler.

As I've written before, this sort of thing is common. And agree with Rich that it's far less likely that CNN would have taken a press release from, say, the NRA or the Heritage Foundation and given it such an uncritical regurgitation.