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How Journalists Distort Science with Balance
The scientist's job is to discover truth about the natural world, and the journalist's is to report the world's events accurately. Why are these two professions so often at odds? Chris Mooney discusses how journalism fails science in this month's Columbia Journalism Review. If you applauded Jon Stewart's plea to "stop hurting America," Mooney's analysis will strike a chord; the he-said-she-said approach to truth fails in all kinds of venues. (via: WorldChanging)
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wow pointing out and error and first post in the post
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As part of the telecom deregulation in the mid 90s, a legal requirement was lifted that had previously required the media to give equal time to both sides of an argument. Without giving any discussion as to why the regulation was eliminated, before you had the news, as you say, arguing for the status quo. Now, you get FoxNews.
I have no point in this, just adding a bit of data. It is always interesting to consider, however, if "unbiased" communication is even 1) possible, and 2) worth while.
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If you don't agree, reply, or mod it as flamebait. By using over/underrated, it's clear the mods are trying to avoid m2, to simply mod comments which they don't agree this.
I hope the editors rectify this, and blacklist these moderators from now on.