Last, but not least, looking beyond the White House, The Hill’s Ben Geman had an update on the race between three Republicans, who are all climate-change skeptics, to be the next chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. Wisconsin’s James Sensenbrenner, Texas’s Lamar Smith, and California’s Dana Rohrbacher are all vying for the position. Geman included statements from Sensenbrenner and Smith, both of whom mentioned a desire to evaluate NASA and US space policy—a subject that hardly came up during the presidential campaign.
For the moment, there are more questions than answers about what lies ahead for energy, the environment, and other scientifically relevant issues. The post-election coverage has made it clear precisely what these questions are, however, and reporters should have a good sense of where they’ll need to follow up during the next four years.
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The candidates said absolutely nothing about it during the campaign because they weren't asked. Now after it's all said and done, the public is left with the speculations of our privileged "fourth estate." Give me a break.
#1 Posted by Nope, CJR on Thu 8 Nov 2012 at 04:15 PM
Of course, the climate story that no one is reporting as to this administration is, "Is Obama's FEMA responding to Sandy any better than Bush's FEMA responded to Katrina?" Based on the fact that 20,000 low-income housing-project residents still have no power or heat (in winter weather) ten days after the storm, it seems pretty clear that they're not doing any better.
Somehow, though, no one in the press wants to run that story. The NYT, for instance, criticizes Bloomberg without breathing a word about FEMA. Certainly, if Bush were still in power, the press would be in those projects, interviewing every elderly resident who lacks heat. As it is, though, they're bad politics, and so the press doesn't much care.
#2 Posted by Tom T. , CJR on Sat 10 Nov 2012 at 03:33 AM