Harper's Author Takes Oyster-Foe Spokesperson to Task

Anonymous writer,  Amy Trainer? Gordon Bennett? wrote error-ridden comment below the Harper's DBOC article. Accomplished author, Michael Ames shows what professional journalism is. Good to see established press challenging for a return to civility and honesty. See his rebuttal here.

Harper's magazine article The West Coast Oyster War, lists several 'established' publishers which repeat false 'facts,'  claims, and outright distortions with vetting them first. False information has been traced back to the office of Amy Trainer. It's important to keep track of what Trainer, as a public figure, is doing and what she has done. up in Washington. One wonders if EAC checked references or deliberately hired her as a henchman.

After contacting several different organizations in California and Washington, D.C., for comment, I learned that many of the country’s oldest and largest environmental groups have agreed that only two people — Neal Desai of the National Parks Conservation Association and Amy Trainer of the West Marin Environmental Action Committee — will speak on the record about Drakes Bay. 
The environmental lobby insists, for example, that Drakes Estero will now become “the first marine wilderness area on the West Coast” outside of Alaska, a claim that has been repeated as fact by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC and NBC affiliates in San Francisco, the local West Marin Environmental Action Committee, most national environmental organizations, and the Park Service itself.