WaPo Hypes Concern Over Birds Killed by Windmills, Yet Housecats Kill

August 29th, 2011 1:02 PM
"Wind farms' turbines drawing static over bird kills" blared the page A4 headline in today's Washington Post. "Advocates want oversight," added a subheadline. Yet it took until paragraph 11 out of 28 that Post staffer Darryl Fears noted that "power lines kill an estimated 10 million, and nearly 11 million are hit by automobiles," compared to just about 500,000 birds who die each year thanks…