" Never just read one newspaper " is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis on wind and solar energy. How’d the New York Times (" War Highlights China’s Renewables Lead ") and the Wall Street Journal (" An Iran War Winner: China’s Clean