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Fact-checking 13-year old photographic images in the Washington Post
Misreporting on wild horses is an out-of-control problem — and Washington Post editors are locked in conflict over fixing errors or letting them stand.
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Fact-checking the New York Times: Maps and data expose cattle, not wild horses, as looming crisis.
A third reader submits hard proof of fundamental errors within the same New York Times article, and goes ignored. What does the Times choose to correct? A spelling error.
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Fact-checking The New York Times: Sources claim wild horse damage, but photos show cattle did it.
Challis wild horse herds aren't causing land health problems in the Spar Canyon. Domestic cattle — under the management responsibility of the BLM — are. And photos prove it.
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Fact-checking 9 errors in the Washington Post, Seattle Times and Houston Chronicle
The Washington Post, Seattle Times and the Houston Chronicle all have a duty to inform the public — not disinform it.
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Fact-checking errors and omissions in the New York Times
"4% of “the West” is not, can never be considered “the West,” New York Times . You can't let that stand."
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Livestock Data Fills Gap in Ongoing Wild Horse Debate
A side-by-side analysis of 2014 grazing data shows wild horses greatly outnumbered by millions of privately owned livestock across 251 million acres of western public grass... [View more]
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Forbes Billionaires Top US Welfare Ranchers List
What do the Koch Brothers, Ted Turner, and the Hilton family have in common with Cliven Bundy? They're among a group of powerful welfare ranchers that take from the public and keep for themselves.
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Bad Ranchers, Bad Cows
Few Americans visit the nation’s public grass and forest lands; fewer still know what livestock damage looks like on them.
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Sustainable Cowboys or Welfare Ranchers of the American West?
Five hundred million dollars[1]. That’s what 21,000[2] ranchers who graze their livestock on America’s iconic western rangelands are estimated to have cost US taxpayers... [View more]
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Animal Welfare Vs. Animal Rights Abolitionism: Is Compromise Possible?
Peruse the trade literature of the meat industry and you’ll find that of all the forces currently arrayed against the livestock industry none evokes as much vitriol as the... [View more]
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