Interestingly, my guess is that those who control the NYT probably consider the comparison to Pravda a compliment.
I know that the NYT has a certain predisposition to slant the news to suit their own ideological nostrums. I was just somewhat chagrined that they chose this particular forum to launch a partisan assault against the Bush Administration.
It seems as if Klinkenborg's cursory mention of several new releases dealing with Global Warming was merely a pretext to insert his own political viewpoints into the NYT Book Review.