The Observatory

Stop treating policy disputes as political squabbles

Of environmental journalism

Thinking through a metaphor

Two articles retake control of the media spotlight

Mainstream press fails to call McCain’s "mandatory caps" gaffe

The press switches from environmental exigency to exhaustion

The profitability of magazines’ new springtime fad

Scare tactics prevent reporters from following more useful angles

The U.S. mortgage crisis has been a staple of American news budgets since it began last fall and reporters have covered it from almost every conceivable angle. Reuters is the first, to my knowledge, to connect it to environmental science. The newswire carried a very interesting and offbeat story yesterday about mosquito populations that are […]

Larry Altman talks about access and interest

Finally, real differences between the candidates for the press to explore

Healthy candidates, tired reporters

Yesterday, The Scientific Activist blog (part of the ScienceBlogs.com community) carried a keen-eyed piece of media criticism, turning the rating scheme of The Washington Post‘s “Fact Checker” blog back on the paper itself. The blog’s editor, Nick Anthis, a doctoral student in biochemistry at Oxford University, took issue with a recent Post article by Juliet […]

Roger Cohn endeavors to make ends meet online

The role of morality in global warming coverage