Celebrity status and race distract from campaign ads’ real message: energy and the economy

Revkin investigates the media’s tendency to ricochet from one global-warming study to another

UCS says journalists overstate potential for higher yields

Reporters must use events, not ads, to leverage information

The AP gets the scoop on the EPA’s decision to devalue a "statistical life"

Over at Grist, the popular online environment magazine, David Roberts has a spot-on takedown of a recent Newsweek column by Michael Hirsh. Hirsh’s piece is all about the McCain campaign’s efforts to cast its candidate (who would be the oldest president ever elected) as a “grown up.” There’s “no better evidence” of that strategy than […]

The risks in reporting long-range weather forecasts

Thinking through a metaphor

Two articles retake control of the media spotlight

Scare tactics prevent reporters from following more useful angles