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Behind the News
Half Full or Half Empty? U.S. Glass has 300 Million Drops of Water
October 17, 2006 10:49 AMLook into the melting pot and describe what you see. That was the challenge confronting journalists as the United States population reached 300 million early this morning. For the past week, reporters have scrambled to pull meaning from a demographic... Continue reading
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SF Chronicle Forecasts Doom, Earth Delivers Early
October 16, 2006 05:02 PMAs his or her story goes to press, every reporter fears the possibility that unforeseen events will jump out of the blue and somehow render the work inaccurate or obsolete. Sometimes, however, and this weekend provided a good example, events... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Meandering Life of a Toxic Sludge Story
October 12, 2006 01:46 PMUsually, I'm up to date on news from the Ivory Coast. A fragile peace is the only thing between the once prosperous country and civil war, and I have family and friends in Abidjan, the de facto capital. So I... Continue reading
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NG Bites the Hand That Feeds It … and the Hand Bites Back
October 4, 2006 11:57 AMIt's hard to know what to add to the current row between National Geographic and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit advocacy organization often used as a source by the media. Most of the dirty laundry is already hanging on... Continue reading
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Inhofe, Climate Change and Those Alarmist Reporters
September 28, 2006 03:00 PMIt's hard to tell what Senator James Inhofe loathes more: the scientific consensus that climate change poses serious threats, or the journalists who write climate-related stories. In a scathing speech delivered on the Senate floor on Monday, the chairman of... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The AJC Takes the CDC’s Temperature
September 21, 2006 12:56 PMAs Americans pick the spinach out of their salads and sandwiches, and patients contact doctors to ask if there will be enough flu vaccine to go around this season, the phones at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta are... Continue reading
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A Reporting Error Frozen in Time?
September 19, 2006 10:23 AMScience writers often face the same technical difficulty as foreign correspondents -- their sources speak a different language. In the case of the former, this is a metaphorical challenge, and in the latter, a literal one, but the consequence is... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Economist Wants to Put Greenbacks Behind Green Industry
September 14, 2006 05:13 PM"The Heat is On," says The Economist. The warning is emblazoned on the magazine's Sept. 9 cover, over a photograph of a parched desert where the only sign of life is the indefatigable cactus. Inside is a 24-page special... Continue reading
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