The Times public editor column is about its coverage of climate change. The public editor reports that she "talked to Times journalists and outside observers who are close readers of The Times's environment coverage — including former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice and a former newspaper journalist himself." The column concludes with a passage quoting Mr. Gore:
"Simply assuming that this is an interesting controversy that we should check in on occasionally is not correct. The survival of human civilization is at risk," Mr. Gore said. "The news media should be making this existential crisis the No. 1 topic they cover."
Does the public editor agree with Mr. Gore's view? She doesn't say, but she does let him have the last word in her column. The column doesn't say whether any fossil-fuel company executives were interviewed.