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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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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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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Nicholas Kristof’s Advice for Saving the World
What would happen if aid organizations and other philanthropists embraced the dark arts of marketing spin and psychological persuasion used on Madison Avenue? We’d save millions more lives.
By Nicholas D. Kristof | Outside Online | December 2009
In 2004, I visited the Darfur area three times, trying to bear witness to the slaughter of children and [...]