Struggling print and online media often skip the substance. That leaves information consumers struggling to assemble our own sources of reliable reporting and analysis.
By Ted Van Dyk | Crosscut.com | March 03, 2010
President Obama is disclosing his end-game strategy for his health-care legislative proposals. Like so many political events, his announcement is provoking a flood [...]
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Credible information sources: One man’s guide
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The O.J. tactic: Climate change skeptics sound like Simpson’s lawyers: If the winter glove won’t fit, you must acquit
By Bill McKibben – Guest Columnist | OregonLive.com | March 02, 2010, 5:00AM
In recent years, every major scientific body in the world has produced reports confirming the peril of climate change. All 15 of the warmest years on record have come in the last two decades. And Earth’s major natural systems are all showing undeniable [...]
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What’s in a name? When the issue is “climate change,” plenty, linguist says
by Robert McClure | Dateline Earth as reported on Investigate WEST | February 22nd, 2010
It’s been apparent for some time that the public is not understanding the potential magnitude of the threat of climate change. The percentage of Americans saying it’s even taking place was recently measured at 57 percent, down 14 points since October [...]
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who needs terrorists when you’ve got the GOP Senators crippling government (since Bush, Cheney and Gang are no longer there to lead the charge) and Wall Street now backing them
Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April.
Read on: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/carl-levin-filibuster-cou_n_455814.html
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This Satellite Could Help Save Humanity
But DSCOVR remains grounded. That fact is key to interpreting the so-called ‘climategate’ emails.
by Mitchell Anderson | TheTyee.ca | January 20, 2010
The media missed the real story about the so-called “climategate” scandal.
After thousands of emails were mysteriously stolen from the University of East Anglia and distributed just before the climate conference in Copenhagen, many news outlets seemed [...]
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Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks
Decision from world’s leading search engine comes amid a clampdown on the internet in China over the last year Google challenge to China over censorship
by Tania Branigan in Beijing | The Guardian | Wednesday 13 January 2010
Google, the world’s leading search engine, has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results [...]
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What Makes a Great Teacher?
For years, the secrets to great teaching have seemed more like alchemy than science, a mix of motivational mumbo jumbo and misty-eyed tales of inspiration and dedication. But for more than a decade, one organization has been tracking hundreds of thousands of kids, and looking at why some teachers can move them three grade levels [...]
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2009 Media Follies!
Welcome to this 14th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse (R.I.P. Post-Intelligencer), and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial [...]
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“Its hard to believe that so much stupid can be stuffed into one huge idiot.”
This has got to be the quote of the day, if not week, month or year. Kim Barrett Johnson on Facebook referring to Rush Limbaugh’s claim, “exercise freaks … are the ones putting stress on the health care system.”
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‘Selfish’ Giving: Does It Count If You Get In Return?
by TOVIA SMITH | NPR | December 22, 2009
It’s been taught to generations that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.” But how blessed is it when you give in order to receive?
This time of year, charity is everywhere: Starbucks is helping to fight AIDS in Africa. Macy’s is giving to the Make [...]