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rockinrehab

warming schwarming

Oct 10, 2005 15:09

I understand that humans have a tendency to ignore potentially catastrophic facts that are inconvenient or unpleasant, but I am just disgusted with Americans' willful ignorance of the issue of carbon-fueled global climate change. Very few issues have the degree of scientific consensus that exists on this issue, but the Senate interviews a fucking ( Read more... )

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ohmavie October 10 2005, 21:16:36 UTC

News and media are all about using scare tactics for less significant issues while the important ones go overlooked. Sucks doesn't it.

rockinrehab October 11 2005, 03:36:24 UTC

I think that is more true of TV news than print news. I see a lot less sensationalism in the Star Tribune than I do on UPN 9 News ads. See my response to Lesion for my explanation for sloppiness in this particular case.

Not I point40bac October 10 2005, 23:31:53 UTC

Oh, sure, what you say makes sense when you use "logic". But who wants to do that?

i just got back a story marked "slanted," btw, and it was, really slanted lesion October 11 2005, 02:00:40 UTC

part of creating an article that's fair -- i.e., trusted by more people than just those who agree with the arguments it lays out, and therefore actually able to educate and broaden perceptions -- is to give the other side a chance to state their opinion. or at very least, to nod at that opinion. that's not bad journalism (regardless of writing taste). it's good journalism. it's good NEWS journalism, i should say. harper's for example, excellent though it is, is not NEWS journalism. but the new york times is, and by that measure needs to maintain fairness in what it writes. in this case, the writers' angle wasn't global warming and its causes -- their angle was international money battles over the results of global warming. so, actually, the presence of global warming was implicit in the story. it WAS the story.

Re: i just got back a story marked "slanted," btw, and it was, really slanted lesion October 11 2005, 02:01:34 UTC

god i sound like a huge dick

maybe news journalism should be abandoned rockinrehab October 11 2005, 03:34:31 UTC

once again, my failure to express myself accurately is at issue. Despite the words I actually wrote, I don't take issue with the fact that the story is about global warming. Of course it is about global warming (or rather, precisely, Arctic warming. The Arctic is, of course, a part of the globe, though some people maintain that Arctic warming is a trend that is separate from the global warming trend. I'm not sure how those people make that work in their heads, because it doesn't in mine. Just by coincidence, all these different parts of the world are warming at the same time, but for separate reasons, and while carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, is at higher levels than ever before, but that has nothing to do with the warming ( ... )