Climate reporting: good, bad, experimental: 2
Yesterday I looked at an example of bad environment reporting. Janet Raloff’s failure to apply traditional news values in reporting a flawed attack on the IPCC opened up the danger that a ’scanning’ reader of the article, on the US Science News site, could believe the attack had credibilty.
Janet picked up the story from a poorly attended press conference. Which concerned her, but not enough to handle the story in a different way, or not at all. Responding to Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News (which I’ve yet to read… I ordered it for our library, and then some other buggers researchers borrowed it before I got my hands on it), Director of the Science Media Centre Fiona Fox writes a defence of the press conference for getting science stories into the hands of journalists. What does she say? More »
