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...Goldacre, whose weekly column in the Guardian, “Bad Science,” hunts down journalistic crimes against science, has published a hypothesis of why bad science reporting occurs. Journalists, from his experience, rely too much on press releases and authority figures. This assumption is perfectly logical because most news comes from those two sources. If a journalist were covering a presidential campaign, obviously the best way to get information would be from the campaign’s press office or from a member of the campaign...
...after 2004, that excuse no longer worked and there is some evidence to suggest that anti-Bushism turned into a broader anti-Americanism. So for many non-Americans this year's elections are the last-chance do-over. "This is a vital election, more than normal," says Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid. "It's vital for all of us, and for the Muslim world even more so. [The new Administration] will have to set a new world agenda because the Bush agenda is totally bankrupt. It's a landmark point for America and for people everywhere...
...prestigious think tank, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, or CASS, acknowledges that the recent assertions of rights over land by peasants are potentially transformational. "They're not widespread now but they could become symbolic ... of peasants ceasing to depend on the law and instead depending on 'natural law.'" Journalist and author Chen Guidi is more blunt: "If word of these declarations starts to spread to peasants around the countryside, it could become uncontrollable." Chen, with his wife Wu Chuntao, is the author of Will the Boat Sink the Water? - a widely praised investigation into conditions in rural China...
...Weiner says his own disposition is akin to that of his favorite Winnie the Pooh character, Eeyore the despondent donkey. That - along with the fact that he has worked as a journalist in more than 30 countries and for a decade was a correspondent for U.S. nonprofit radio-news syndicator NPR - means he takes a skeptical and fact-based approach. The first place he lands is the World Database of Happiness (WDH), a Dutch institute that scientifically researches perceptions of happiness in various societies around the world, and ranks countries in order of contentment. At WDH, Weiner learns some...
...Meanwhile, holding the people who cover you in such low regard makes it more difficult for the Clintons to persuade fair-minded journalists of just about anything. If the press isn't worthy of any respect, then there's no reason not to manipulate it with impunity - but no important journalist wants to be manipulated. You can scold Ted Koppel for chasing trash - once - but you pay a price when the "trash" turns out to be true. No one likes being played for a chump...