Goodman on CNN on the Japanese Disasters
Tim Goodman, TV critic for The Hollywood Reporter, continues the discussion of how bad CNN’s Japan coverage has been: Japan disaster shows U.S. journalists unprepared. Covering this trilogy of terror...
View ArticleUSA Today Editorial Board vs. James Inhofe on Climate Change
Dale McGowan explains (in an otherwise worthwhile piece that I’m not going to focus on here) how he helped his 9-year-old daughter deal with the fear that resulted from her having heard about Christian...
View ArticleLithwick on OWS and the Media
Here’s a really good piece by Dahlia Lithwick on how the mainstream media (in particular, whining-head political pundits) have rendered themselves irrelevant by willfully misconstruing the message of...
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The Great Media Conspiracy
Speaking of alleged scientific conspiracies, I came across a cool item yesterday: A recent study published by the British Journal of Social Psychology: Does it take one to know one? Endorsement of...
View ArticleThe Heartland Institute Memos
I haven’t posted about this yet, though I’ve been following it from the get-go (obviously). But at this point it’s made the jump to mainstream news, so here goes. From the the NYT: Leak Offers Glimpse...
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Garbage In…
I have to confess, taking a deep dive into the comment sections of some conservative blogs over the last few days as part of following the Heartland story has been educational, if fairly off-putting....
View ArticleMore on the Heartland Document Leak
I have a substantive post on the Heartland thing that I plan to write shortly, but in the meantime here’s another massive roundup of the latest stuff I’ve been reading, including some quoting of myself...
View ArticleThe CJR on Gleick
From the Columbia Journalism Review, here’s a nice article that goes into detail on both journalistic ethics and legal issues as they relate to Gleick’s actions: Heartland, Gleick, and Media Law....
View ArticleRussell to Daisey to Gleick
There’s a weird synchronicity in all these stories floating around lately about people, nominally good guys, trying to raise public awareness about nominal bad guys, but doing it by exaggerating or...
View ArticleMore on Daisey (Mostly), Plus a Little Russell and Gleick
It turns out that journalists have thought a lot about this whole question of whether it is or isn’t cool to lie to make your story more compelling. Weighing in on the Mike Daisey story are a bunch of...
View ArticleGarner and Molina in ‘Serena’
My online existence seems to be increasingly YouTube-centric. There’s the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Guys Who Watch Girls, and the newest from Pomplamoose, Let’s Go for a Ride, including a brief (but...
View ArticleWhy Don’t I Hate Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’?
The response to Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series The Newsroom has been, as they say, “mixed.” I knew that going in, and yet, I’ve kinda liked it. I see the things that the haters are complaining about,...
View ArticleThe Exceptionally Dishonest Romney Campaign Ads
There was a brief flurry of media/blogger chatter this week about the fact that the Romney campaign’s advertising seems to be setting a new standard for, if not outright reprehensibility, at least a...
View ArticleThe Other (Other) L-Word
I thought this was cute: Cable news coverage, as summarized by TPM, in which newsfolk try terribly, terribly hard not to say, of Paul Ryan’s convention speech last night, “He lied.”
View ArticleRoberts on the Media on Romney’s Post-Truth Politics
David Roberts has been thinking about this question, “how do you solve a problem like Maria?” (where “Maria” is “the Romney’s campaign’s willingness to lie brazenly without regard to media fact...
View ArticleCraig Newmark on Fact Checking
I enjoyed this item that Craig Newmark (the Craigslist guy) posted to his craigconnects.org site recently: Fact-checkers are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. I particularly liked...
View ArticleRightwing Media and the Election
A couple of interesting articles I read over the past few days: Fox News’ dark night of the soul – Andrew O’Hehir apparently got the assignment of watching Fox News’ coverage on election night and...
View ArticleMartin: Republicans on Their Closed Media Universe
I think Politico’s Jonathan Martin must have been told, “write a piece in which prominent Republicans find as many possible ways to say ‘epistemic closure’ without ever actually using that phrase.” The...
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Talking about Sandy and Climate Change
I’ve been reading a bunch of people talking about whether Hurricane Sandy was “caused by” climate change (answer: it depends on what you mean by “caused by”). Also the related question: Is it kosher...
View ArticleKahan on the Need for a Science Communication EPA
From a talk Dan Kahan gave this past spring, summarizing his views about science communication:
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