Binghamton Newspaper Extreme Anti-Drilling Bias on Display

This is what passes for "journalism" at the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (P&SB), MDN's hometown newspaper. Once upon a time the P&SB had a lefty reporter working for them, Tom Wilber. We've highlighted Tom's anti-fracking articles in the past. Tom is a good writer, and fancied himself an Author, so he left the P&SB to write a book on fracking, "Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale." Perhaps Tom thought he could retire in style after attacking shale energy. The book bombed. Tom had to get a day job again and ended up working for the P&SB (surprise!). He recently penned a rehashed diatribe against shale drilling in a series on shale energy appearing in the pages of the P&SB. We found it, quite frankly, boring. If we're bored, you will be too--which is why we didn't bother to comment on the series. Fortunately, MDN friends Tom Shepstone and others "took one for the team" and analyzed Tom's latest anti-drilling diatribe (see NGN: Is That All There Is, Tom Wilber?). Tom (Shepstone) deserves hazard pay for reading it all. Our point: Tom Wilber is what the P&SB considers to be a fair, impartial journalist. Well, no they don't, not really. They know he's as biased and unfair as the editors at the P&SB, which is why they run his articles. They present his work as impartial journalism. To further highlight just how unfair and biased the P&SB is, we spotted two opinion pieces in the Sunday edition (yesterday). You know how newspapers run side-by-side "for and against" op-ed pieces? This time it was "against and against"--both op-eds were against fracking and shale energy. That's what passes for "fair" in the P&SB...

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