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The Most Pro-suburban Sprawl Article Ever Published?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
29 September 2004 - 7:00am

Sprawl critic Joel Hirschhorn takes aim at "The Autonomist Manifesto" that appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

"The Sunday 26, 2004 [New York Times] Magazine included an article by John Tierney, a correspondent in the Times’ Washington bureau, entitled 'The Autonomist Manifesto (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Road)'. It is arguably the most pro-suburban sprawl article ever published in a major American newspaper. But the quality of its information is abysmal."

Full Story: Another Lapse of Journalistic Integrity at The New York Times
Source: Common Dreams, September 28, 2004
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