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A question to ponder:  If you received an “award” from a shoddy institution celebrating some of your weakest work, would you go proudly proclaim the stained medallion or would you bury the award in a closet hoping to never hear about it again?
CBS faces such a conundrum …
As per Media Matters reporting, a CBS “reporter” [...]

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This guest post from Barath enriches the GESN conversation begun with CNN’s celebratory misinformation about America’s energy situation.

…while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The Wall Street Journal reported some exciting news not that long ago—you might have heard about it.  We no longer have energy problems.  That’s right, as the Murdoch headlines announced triumphantly:
U.S. [...]

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The Washington Post, for too many decades, has been the ‘home-town’ paper.  With the dead-tree edition at the breakfast table, the gaps and failures in coverage (and skewed editorial section) are too evident.  Thus, many — many — posts re The Post leading to a decision to begin/maintain a “Post Watch” series when frustration (or, [...]

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As a native Washingtonian, weaned on morning and evening newspapers, The Washington Post is my hometown journal and has been (for too many decades) a key part of my window on the world.  Over the decades, however, that window has dirtied and darkened to distortion on critical issues to the point that I (and, well, [...]

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On 18 October, Politco published a Darren Samuelson article entitled “Liberals unhappy with Solyndra focus“.
Environmental groups are desperate to shift media attention away from Solyndra’s collapse and toward allegations of Obama administration favoritism to the Keystone XL pipeline, and they’re willing to throw the White House under the bus to do it.
This article comes amid [...]

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This guest post from DWG provides a perspective on “Climate Shift”, questioning Google’s intentions with the climate communicators’ program.
In addition to the items cited below, see Nisbet’s “Climate Shift” and where did they get these numbers (Item #374)

Several months ago, Google announced with some fanfare the creation of a new Science Communication Fellowship program with [...]

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The release of Matt Nisbet’s Climate Shift report (and the opening of the Climate Shift Project website) has been surrounded by a storm of controversy, opened by Joe Romm’s critique of Nisbet’s financial analysis (follow up here and here; Chris Mooney on science ‘balance’, and Media Matters’ critique of Nisbet’s media analysis).     I read a [...]

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Today, 15 representatives of America’s impassioned, engaged, and concerned youth met with the President. How many Americans know that the President met with them?
One of the realities of American politics is that the paid machine of distorting anti-science syndrome suffering haters of a livable economic system works the interpreters, HARD!  When the Tea Party [...]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF.

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
Suppose that you wanted to inject a framing into a purely political strategy which also happened to involve sabotaging the future of the nation’s economy?
“We sabotaged the future economy.”
Hmmm, that would be a bad talking point there.
How [...]

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