New York Times science/environment writer Andy Revkin produced a truly bizarre piece over the weekend: "Middle Stance Emerging in Debate Over Climate." Frankly, I'm surprised it got past the NYT's news editors.

It strikes me as a good illustration of the limits of traditional journalism, since what Revkin's up to is not a description of a state of affairs -- i.e., reporting news -- but an attempt to frame a debate. Does that belong in the...