If Bill Maher’s strategy for landing interviews for his mockumentary Religulous sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same method that Ben Stein & co. used for Expelled. From an LA […]
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Nielsen has released an interesting breakdown and comparison of the audiences for the first presidential debate and the VP debate.According to Nielsen, sixty-one percent of all U.S. households watched at […]
From the University of Pennsylvania’s FactCheck.org, (listen to the ad and read the full analysis): An Obama-Biden radio ad hammers McCain for being opposed to stem cell research. Not true. […]
How difficult has it been for economists to communicate their expertise to policy makers during this financial crisis? The Chronicle of Higher Education has this report: During the days after […]
Film education? Consulting scientists on Jurassic Park helped morph the image of dinosaurs in the public’s mind from reptilian to avian, popularized the idea of “Chaos Theory,” and made plausible […]
The chatter among pundits and journalists this post-debate morning has focused in part on John McCain’s body language and split-screen demeanor. There was a clear aggressiveness and emotion to McCain’s […]
In a two hour special, PBS Frontline tackles what the award winning series calls the most important issue of our time. (Promo above.) The special program airs Tuesday night in […]
How strong is the partisan divide on perceptions of global warming? The tendency for Republicans to doubt the reality of climate change means that they are even distrustful of John […]
Following on the heels of Expelled and Obsession, a film warning of radical Islam, there’s more signs that the Right has discovered documentary film as a strategic communication tool to […]
More people are following the nation’s economic problems than almost any other public event over the past two decades. According to Pew, the percentage of Americans who say they are […]
According to Nielsen, close to 70 million Americans tuned in to watch the Biden-Palin debate. For comparison, the 2004 vice presidential debate between V.P. Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards […]
For the fourth straight month, Framing Scienceranks among the top 15 science-related blogs, as tracked by Wikio. The position of a blog in the Wikio ranking depends on the number […]
How critical is framing to effectively communicating about complex policy problems, especially under conditions of uncertainty? Just take a look at the debate over the economic crisis.As I noted last […]
Global warming and the environment are dead last among the criteria that voters are using to evaluate the presidential candidates, according to a recent Gallup survey. When asked in an […]
From the NY Times Caucus Politics Blog: In the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll, 63 percent of voters said they were paying a lot of attention to the campaign, […]
Voters not yet committed to either candidate were 12% more engaged by TV coverage of the GOP convention than the Democratic convention, according to an analysis released Monday by Nielsen […]
AP report on an innovative survey by researchers at Stanford University: Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo […]
At the WPost, Juliet Eilperin pens a lengthy feature on the differences between Palin and McCain over the causes of global warming. Palin believes that the effects of climate change […]
Andrew Revkin at DotEarth has the scoop on “Green Inc.” a new NY Times blog covering energy and business. If it comes close to having the impact as DotEarth, it […]
Appearing on NPR’s Fresh Air to discuss his new book “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” Friedman was asked by host Terry Gross whether or not the term “green energy” might be […]
In another example of the strategic role that YouTube is playing in this year’s election, the Huffington Post has linked to a video montage of McCain’s pleas over the past […]
As I wrote earlier today, how Sarah Palin’s devout Pentecostal faith colors her views on complex policy problems such as Iraq or climate change is a relevant question that journalists […]
The TV networks are still a very powerful constituency and it’s doubtful McCain will be a no-show unless the political advantages are absolutely clear. Even Fox News is going to […]
Bush-Gore Debates 2000: The focus was on performance rather than substance.For those that have seen the Nisbet/Mooney Speaking Science 2.0 talks over the past year, you might have witnessed during […]
The Dartmouth investment banker and the Princeton professor.It would be interesting to trace the origin of the term “bailout” as applied to the Bush administration’s plan since the phrase has […]
Given the complexities of pressing science-related issues such as climate change or biomedical research, we need a new breed of specialist journalist who covers the intersections of science and policy. […]
In the Post’s Sunday Book Review, atheist and Georgetown professor Jacques Berlinerblau reviews Michael Novak’s “No One Sees God: A Catholic Philosopher Attempts a Dialogue with the New Atheists.”In the […]
Were Ronald Reagan and Carl Sagan the dominant communicators of the 1980s? Watching this past week the PBS American Experience biopic on Reagan reinforced in my mind the parallels between […]
A news release on a new survey from the Woodrow Wilson Center’s project on nanotechnology: Washington, DC — A groundbreaking poll finds that almost half of U.S. adults have heard […]
Bill Maher’s mockumentary Religulous opens in theaters on Friday. Judging by Maher’s media interviews, it’s more of the same type of sophomoric ridicule that has been so self-defeating to the […]