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Who’s Who& What’s WhatN a v i g a t i n g T h r u t h e
M a z e o f N e w M e d i a i n a P o s t C l i m a t e g a t e W o r l d
J. Madeleine NashJune 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
•Mass Media, Old & New
•Climate Science Goes Viral
•Lessons Learned?
•Resources on Science & the Media
Saturday, May 29, 2010
It Used To Be (Fairly) Simple
Wire Services, AP & UPI
Newspapers, a Long List New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post Christian Science Monitor Chicago Tribune San Francisco Chronicle Miami Herald La Times
Saturday, May 29, 2010
It Used To Be (Fairly) Simple
Magazines Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report The New Yorker The Atlantic etc
Saturday, May 29, 2010
It Used To Be (Fairly) SimpleRadio & Television
Image Credit: NasaSaturday, May 29, 2010
The Good Old Days?
“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.” Norman Mailer
“Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.” Hedrick Smith, New York Times
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.” George Bernard Shaw
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Good Old Days?
“I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.” Groucho Marx
“Television: A medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well done.” Ernie Kovacs
“Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.” Art Buchwald
Saturday, May 29, 2010
That Was Then...This Is Now
“The news business has both expanded and fragmented in the post-Cronkite, post-Fairness Doctrine era. The news monopoly the three broadcast networks enjoyed for two decades has been shattered by the three cable news networks.... The Web... has only reshattered the shards.”
By Jack Shaferhttp://www.slate.com/id/2223288/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
This Is Now
http://journalismethics.ca/feature_articles/journalism_in_a_wikified_world.html
“Journalism changed forever starting in early 2004. At that time, there were about a million people worldwide writing the online personal diaries called blogs.There was no MySpace, no Facebook, no Digg and no YouTube. Apple's iPod had sold less than a half-million units. The Internet was emerging from a two-year hangover....”
Paul Gillin, Media Consultant
Saturday, May 29, 2010
This Is NowUS metropolitan dailies closed since March, 2007Tucson CitizenRocky Mountain NewsBaltimore ExaminerKentucky PostCincinnati PostKing County JournalUnion City Register-TribuneHalifax Daily NewsAlbuquerque TribuneSouth Idaho PressSan Juan StarHonolulu Advertiser
Paul Gillin, http://newspaperdeathwatch.com
Saturday, May 29, 2010
This Is Now
Has the Apple iPad saved journalism from extinction? We'll seeIt certainly has the potential to make digital reading a joyous experience. And that has to be a good thing
Oliver BurkemanThe Guardian, Friday 29 January 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“[One of]the most watched minute[s] of video made in the last five years shows baby Charlie biting his brother’s finger. (Twice!) That minute has been watched by more people than the viewership of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl combined. (174 million views and counting.)” http://www.shirky.com/weblog/
This Is Now
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“I got to a point where the hamster-wheel quality of being a news reporter, where you are on this little cage thing and it’s spinning faster and faster, and trying to mesh the print work with the blog work, which I started two-and-a-half years ago, was really challenging...Although, here I am continuing to blog.... So I guess I must either have a thick skin or be really stupid...”Andy Revkin, Interview with Yale 360
This Is Now
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Video Shows U.S. Killing of Reuters EmployeesWASHINGTON — The Web site WikiLeaks.org released a graphic video on Monday showing an American helicopter shooting and killing a Reuters photographer and driver in a July 2007 attack in Baghdad.
This Is Now
WikiLeaks
Saturday, May 29, 2010
• Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press (RCFP)• The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE)• The Associated Press - world wide news agency, based in New York• Citizen Media Law Project - Harvard university• The E.W Scripps Company - newspapers, TV, cable TV etc.• Gannett Co. Inc - the largest publisher of newspapers in the USA, including USA Today• The Hearst Corporation - media conglomerate which publishes the San Francisco Chronicle• The Los Angeles Times• National Newspaper Association (NNA)• Newspaper Association of America (NAA)• The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)• The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)• Public Citizen - founded by Ralph Nader together with the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC)• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)• The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)• The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)• Jordan McCorkle, the University of Texas
This Is Now
WikiLeaksSaturday, May 29, 2010
This Is Also Now...
Posted by Jeff Id on February 2, 2010
“Since these files first came out, there has been a lot of speculation as to the source of them. ...In my opinion, this was done by a couple of students (they said “we” a couple of times in the comment they left at tAV). They were probably right there on the premises, looking right at the box.”
Jeff Id is a pseudonym for Patrick Condon, an aeronautical engineer from Morris, Illinois.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
CliSci Goes ViralTom Fuller...has written technology commentary for The International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily and consulted on green technology for the UK government. About half of what he writes here will be a liberal skeptic's view of environmental issues.
Steven M. Mosher graduated Northwestern University and attended UCLA for graduate studies in literature. He later joined Northrop Aircraft where he worked as a threat analyst and director of analysis.. Since 1995 he has specialized in the development of new consumer technologies ... Since 2007 he has worked in the open source community and has been active leader in the effort to get open access to the data and code underlying climate science.
http://www.examiner.com/x-9111-SF-Environmental-Policy-Examiner~y2010m1d14-Climategate-The-CRUtape-Letters
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Updated November 24, 2009
Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'By John Lott - FOXNews.com
A coordinated campaign to hide scientific information about climate change appears unprecedented. Could it wind up costing us trillions?
John R. Lott, Jr. is a FoxNews.com contributor....an economist...author of Freedomonics.. senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Foundation, College Park...and blogger.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/
CliSci Goes Viral
Saturday, May 29, 2010
CliSci Goes Viral
Media coverage of the "Climategate" story by various outlets. Credit: Randy Olson & Ryan Mitchell, The Benshi
Blogs
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“The issue-attention cycle defines a cyclical process, in which a new public issue arises after some triggering event. Coverage and attention to this issue rises quickly, and then declines, as it is seen as no longer novel or unique...”Robert Brulle, Drexler University Sociologist
CliSci Goes Viral
Release of cru emails
Saturday, May 29, 2010
http://climateaudit.org/
http://www.realclimate.org/
The Blogosphere
Saturday, May 29, 2010
http://climateprogress.org
Best. Headline. Ever.April 4, 2010
UEA Climate Scientist: “possible that…I.P.C.C. has run its course”
This is a surprise. Professor Mike Hulme of the University of East Anglia suggests that the “I.P.C.C. has run its course”. I agree with him. We really need to remove a wholly political organization, the United Nations, from science.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/
The Blogosphere
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Blogosphere
Dueling blogs ... can actually enhance public trust in the science as they see both sides of the arguments being discussed. Debating science with skeptics should be the spice of academic life, but many climate researchers lost this somehow by mistakenly thinking that skeptical arguments would diminish the public trust in the message coming from the climate research establishment.
Judith Curry, Chair, Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/policy.htm
http://blogs.physicstoday.org/politics/2010/02/opinion-can-scientists-rebuild.html
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Blogosphere
Huh? You may not agree with everything I write, but at least it is grounded in the actual scientific literature... I rarely “duel” with Watts, since he’s not making a serious effort to understand and report on the science...If Curry seriously believes that WattsUpWithThat in any way, shape or form is contributing to increasing the credibility of climate research...then we could not possibly disagree more.” Joe Romm, Editor of Climate Progress
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Blogosphere
“I asked Dr. Judith Curry if I could repost her letter which she originally sent to Climate Progress....Dr. Curry gets props from the skeptical community because she had the courage to invite Steve McIntyre to give a presentation at Georgia Tech, for which she took criticism. Her letter is insightful and addresses troubling issues. We can all learn something from it. – Anthony”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/27/an-open-letter-from-dr-judith-curry-on-climate-science/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Observatory — February 15, 2010 10:04 AM
U.S. Press Digs Into IPCC StoryArticles still fall short of ambitious work in the U.K.By Curtis Brainard
The Observatory — December 03, 2009 06:53 PM
Hacked E-mails and “Journalistic Tribalism”Climate coverage is imperfect, but is it ideologically biased?By Curtis Brainard
“The mainstream media tends to abhor complicated stories on areas of scientific uncertainty .... This tendency is not exclusive to science reporting—most editors tend to prefer distilled and simple 'news bites.’ The consequences, as Mike Hulme put it...are false narratives: “Either the evidence for man-made climate change is all fake, or else we are so sure we know how the planet works that we can claim to have just five or whatever years to save it.” Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/hacked_emails_and_journalistic.php?page=all
The Mainstream
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Battle over climate data turned into war between scientists and sceptics
Fred Pearce: In 2002 when Steve McIntyre emailed Phil Jones asking for weather station data, so began the tribalism among scientists that led to 'climategate' 131 comments
How the 'climategate' scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies
Fred Pearce: Claims based on email soundbites are demonstrably false - there is manifestly no evidence of clandestine data manipulation 123 comments
Hockey stick graph took pride of place in IPCC report, despite doubts
Fred Pearce: Emails expose tension between desire for scrupulous honesty, and desire to tell simple story to tell the policymakers 40 comments
Climate change debate overheated after sceptic grasped 'hockey stick'
Fred Pearce: Steve McIntyre pursued graph's creator Michael Mann, but replication of his temperature spike has earned credibility 56 comments
guardian.uk.com
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“Despite all the talk a few years ago about ‘the debate being over’…the forces of anti-scientific disinformation were just lying dormant....I guess what we all underestimated was the degree, the depth of dishonesty, dirtiness, and cynicism to which the climate change denial movement would be willing to stoop to advance their agenda.”
Michael Mann, Interviewed by Chris Mooney, Point of Inquiry
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/7175
Who’s To Blame?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Who’s To Blame?A Call for More Transparency, Less Tribalism
“In summary, the problem seems to be ... the circling of the wagons strategy... Particularly on a topic of such great public relevance, scientists need to consider carefully skeptical arguments and either rebut them or learn from them. Trying to suppress them or discredit the skeptical researcher or blogger is not an ethical strategy and one that will backfire in the long run.”
Judith Curry, Chair, Georgia Tech School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, ClimateAudit.com
http://curry.eas.gatech.edu/climate/index.htm
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Chill Out: Climate scientists are getting a little too angry for their own good.
“The latest batch of e-mails reflects a bunker mentality among climate scientists, forged during the Bush administration and reinforced by the recent attacks on their credibility...But urgent calls to escalate the war against climate skeptics may lead scientists and their organizations into a dangerous trap, fueling further political disagreement while risking public trust in science.”
By Matthew C. Nisbet
http://www.slate.com/id/2248236/pagenum/all
Who’s To Blame?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
March 29, 2010
“Some people have suggested that scientists need to wise up, and learn how to present themselves better on the public stage....[But] no scientist can be an effective communicator in a world where those with vested interests will do everything they can to destroy his or her reputation... What we really need is for newspaper editors, politicians, and business leaders to start acting responsibly...and shift the discourse from endless dissection of scientists’ emails onto useful, substantive discussions of the policy choices we’re faced with.”
Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto
Who’s To Blame?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“...There has been what can only be described as a media frenzy (mostly in the UK) with regards to climate change in recent weeks. The coverage has contained more bad reporting, misrepresentation and confusion on the subject than we have seen in such a short time anywhere... Perhaps this is driven by editors demanding that reporters come up with something new (to them)... Or perhaps it is driven by the journalists desperate to maintain their scoop by pretending... that this nonsense hasn’t been debunked a hundred times already? Who knows? ” Gavin Scott, RealClimate
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/02/whatevergate/#more-2806
Who’s To Blame?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“The deniers' campaign of lies, grotesque as it is, does not justify secrecy and suppression on the part of climate scientists. Far from it: it means that they must distinguish themselves from their opponents in every way. No one has been as badly let down by the revelations in these emails as those of us who have championed the science. We should be the first to demand that it is unimpeachable, not the last.”
Friendly Fire
Saturday, May 29, 2010
MEDIA
Climate Scientists’ E-mails Hacked, Posted; So What Does it All Mean for the Climate?By Bud Ward | November 22, 2009
“There is, one might regret to say, an appearance of some there there. And appearances, as we’ve often learned but too seldom remember, are reality when it comes to making policy in Washington on complex public policy issues.”
Friendly Fire
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“If you care about an issue and want to make it your life’s work, don’t cut corners! It’s disheartening for people inclined towards the scientific method, and it’s catnip to these guys who are going to end up celebrating tonight, drunk, roaming the Arctic Circle trying to skull f$#@ polar bears!”
Friendly Fire
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“The very fact that Climategate was newsworthy is evidence that reporters hold scientists to a much higher standard than they hold denialists, even if they won’t admit it in their quest to report a controversy.”
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/mann_bites_dog_why_climategate_was_newsworthy
Friendly Fire
Saturday, May 29, 2010
“My frustration is that some of the smartest and most talented people in this discussion seem obsessed with the warfare right now, with smacking down every thing said on the Internet that they view as wrong, as if a) they could somehow succeed in ending bunk, and b) if all bunk ended, then their preferred political/policy solutions would follow.”
jfleck at inkstainA few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico
Friendly Fire
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Lessons Learned?
E-Mails Show Scientists Planning Push-Back Against 'McCarthyite' Attacks on Climate Science
By ALEX KAPLUN of GreenwireMarch 5, 2010
“U.S. scientists are planning to counter criticisms directed at them during the "Climategate" scandal and congressional debates...The e-mails obtained by E&E show the scientists are considering launching advertising campaigns, widening their public presence, pushing the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to take a more active role in explaining climate science.” http://www.eenews.net/gw/
Energy & Environment
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Lessons Learned?
“The failure of the University of East Anglia to respond substantially to the avalanche of invective from climate skeptics has been a PR disaster that undermined the reputation of science as well as the institution itself. One angry media insider says: ‘Their response will be taught in university communications courses. Because I’m going to make sure it is.’’Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360
Saturday, May 29, 2010
The Big Question
March 8, 2010, 11:51 AM
Should Scientists Fight Heat or Stick to Data?By ANDREW C. REVKIN
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/should-scientists-fight-heat-or-stick-to-data/#more-15243
Saturday, May 29, 2010
A Fine Line
“I learned early in my career that it is far better to address the issues raised by global warming skeptics head on rather than ignore their attacks and let public sentiment evolve in an information battleground that has been ceded to their arguments. I feel that as climate scientists we must put ourselves at the very center of the discussions... In doing so, some may come dangerously close to policy advocacy, but to recuse ourselves from the raging international debate would be a great loss for humanity.”Guest Commentary: An Open Essay on “ClimateGate”Kim Cobb, Georgia Tech
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/12/kim-cobbs-view/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
A Fine Line“Some communications experts...have suggested that climate scientists now should begin ‘framing’ their comments in such a way to appeal better to the public. In effect, this approach is no different than that of the deniers and places researchers in the role of advocates instead of experts. There's a fine line that scientists need to walk, losing their stereotypical persona of unemotional expert focused solely on the data but not adopting any advocacy role that would place them opposite of the naysayers in a he says/she says story. This will be far tougher to pull off than most of them will think it will be.”
Earle Holland, Assistant Vice President for Research CommunicationsOhio State University, email communication
Saturday, May 29, 2010
A Fine Line“The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth’s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now....The APS also urges governments, universities, national laboratories and its membership to support policies and actions that will reduce the emission of greenhouse gases.”
National Policy07.1 CLIMATE CHANGE(Adopted by American Physical Society on November 18, 2007
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Resources
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/index.php
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Resources
http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Resources
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/
http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/
FRAMING SCIENCEWHAT'S NEXT IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT?
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Resources
Communicating on Climate Change:An Essential Resource for Journalists, Scientists, and EducatorsBud Ward Edited by Sunshine Menezes
http://www.metcalfinstitute.org/Communicating_ClimateChange.htm
http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Resources
The Historical Perspective:Science Advisors or Policy Advocates?
Saturday, May 29, 2010