Last week, NBC weatherman Al Roker caught a lot of flak (deservedly so) for suggesting that climate change was now causing tornadoes to strike urban areas. Not all hope is lost for broadcast news, though. Last night, this segment on the PBS News Hour (the one place where talking heads can be relied on for…Continue Reading…
Despite his site’s antiquated layout, Matt Drudge has “stable traffic of about 12 million to 14 million unique visitors every month no matter what kind of news is breaking,” writes David Carr in today’s NYT. How does he do it? Carr marvels: With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is…Continue Reading…
UPDATE: I just noticed this talk is a year old. Still, it’s pretty fascinating. Anyone interested in how the journalistic sausage gets made in the UK, about the cozy relationship between British reporters and politicians, about how climate change gets covered in the media, should watch this revealing talk by Sarah Mukherjee, who until recently was…Continue Reading…
Say one thing about Joe Romm, he understands the value of getting ahead of a story to try and influence the media narrative. He’s kinda like Mike Tyson in his prime, who would launch from his corner stool like a ball of fury as soon as the opening bell was rung and pummel his opponent…Continue Reading…
A military analyst/scholar, explaining why he’s recently turned down media requests to appear on TV, echoes Jon Stewart’s infamous diatribe.
A commenter sums up the media’s schizophrenic coverage of Japan’s nuclear disaster (as communicated via expert opinion) : “It’s horrible!” “It’s no big deal” “Worst thing Evah” “No, it’s minor and under control” “Run for your lives!” “You’re fine.” You can actually see the frustration on the journalists faces. “Science” says everyone’s dead and everyone’s…Continue Reading…
Some of the dead-enders in the climate change & communication debate don’t seem capable of recognizing their own bunk, even after it’s pointed out to them ad nauseum. So here we go again: we are looking at a bunk tsunami, and the press seems absolutely obsessed with finding little bugs on the other side (a…Continue Reading…
John Broder, in his next day story, tries to [you choose] 1) atone, 2) appease, 3) fill in the blank. “We’ll never know what this president could have achieved,” said Joseph J. Romm, a former Department of Energy official who is one of the country’s most influential writers on climate change, “because he didn’t try.”
Climate blogger Joe Romm has published one of his worst misleading opening sentences: The New York Times has published one of its worst climate science pieces. Yes, I’m being playful, but also dead serious. Romm’s latest post knocking The New York Times coverage of global warming is about this John Broder article–which itself was about a…Continue Reading…
Over at Ecological Sociology, a supposition is put forth that the politicization of environmental matters has taken a new twist. Call it “everything good is bad for you reporting.” This is reporting that takes conventional wisdom about environmental matters — energy efficiency is good, recycling is good — and turns it on its head by…Continue Reading…