Outside Magazine Punches Back On Zinke And His Lying Bullshit
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We want to use that accusation as an opportunity to address these issues head-on and talk about how we approach DOI and public-land stories. We also want to clear up what getting more political means to us. (Thats Recode Medias headline, by the way, not a direct quote from our executive editor Axie Navas.)
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That coverage does not fall into partisan camps. Weve published stories about bills proposed by both Republicans and Democrats, and talked about solutions that have broad congressional support. Indeed, the most significant thing our stories share is solid reporting from writers who are experts in their field. Take Elliott Woodss 2017 Ryan Zinke profileone of the magazines most deeply researched and widely read features in recent history. (Speaking of bias, that story may have got the magazine barred from a DOI press conference.) Or Abe Streeps article about the Native American attorneys fighting to overturn the Trump administrations decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument.
What our writers and editors have noticed is that since Donald Trump took office and appointed Zinke to lead the DOI, the countrys public lands have increasingly come under attack. As Outsides editor, Christopher Keyes, wrote in the magazine last year, What used to be a trickle of seemingly minor policy stories has become a weekly firehose of significant developments. To name a few: President Trumps executive order requiring Interior secretary Ryan Zinke to review 27 national monuments; Zinkes proposal to reduce the budget and staff of the already strapped Interior Department; and Representative [Rob] Bishops unveiling of a new bill that would dramatically alter the Antiquities Act by decreasing the executive branchs power to designate new national monuments.
Such developments have national consequenceswhich is why Outside chose to cover them. Weve always prided ourselves on being a magazine that uses the narrow focus of the outdoors to tell stories with broad appeal, and if it seems to the DOI that weve upped our political coverage lately, its because theres a lot of news in that realm worth reporting. (Weve largely ignored the scandals that have plagued Zinke personally, choosing instead to concentrate on decisions affecting the places our readers love. Admittedly, we did cover his inability to properly rig a fly rod.)
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https://www.outsideonline.com/2325231/damn-straight-outside-covers-politics