Survey trends show that atheists are America’s least trusted minority, ranking below Muslims, recent immigrants, homosexuals and other groups. Moreover, Pew studies indicate that Americans are very comfortable with religion […]
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As disappointing as this week’s State of the Union address might have been to many climate change advocates, in today’s Washington Post, Peter Baker and Steven Mufson have a revealing […]
Things just went from bad to terrible for the image of the Association of American Publishers. Rick Weiss in today’s WPost spotlights the Association’s hiring of “PR Pit Bull” Eric […]
Brace yourself for the 2008 You-Tube election. When it comes to presidential campaigns, many Americans make up their minds about candidates not based on the issues, but rather based on […]
Throughout January, PBS has been test piloting three science programs on channels across the country and via streaming video online at their Web site. According to PBS mag Current, one […]
Scientists and environmental advocates will watch with excited anticipation on Friday as the policymakers’ summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is released in Paris, France. The IPCC reports […]
Over the weekend I spotlighted a Washington Post article on the Association of American Publishers’ hiring of the “PR Pit Bull” to frame their attacks on free access to federally-financed […]
Tuesday was “open mike” day at Senator Barbara Boxer’s Environment and Public Works committee, reports the Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin. Senate Dems including Barak Obama took stage to hammer home […]
GRAPH: MAJOR NEWSPAPER ATENTION TO “BLOOD” OR “CONFLICT” DIAMONDSAll eyes in the science advocacy community will be on Paris tomorrow, as the policymakers’ summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate […]
Friday’s IPCC report represents history’s most definitive statement of scientific consensus on climate change, yet despite the best efforts of scientists, advocates, and several media organizations to magnify wider attention […]
With political leaders like Senator James Inhofe and ideological safe zones like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, is it any wonder that only 23% of college-educated […]
What accounts for the striking partisan differences in public perceptions of global warming? As I’ve detailed (here and here), it’s a combined result of strong opinion-cues from party leaders and […]
Last week, global warming cracked the top 5 news stories at Pew’s media attention index, but only accounted for roughly 5% of the total news hole across outlets, dwarfed by […]
How much impact has Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth had on the global warming debate? More generally, how can we understand the range of influences that a documentary film might have […]
Declaring that framing should be a central strategy, Ellen Goodman in today’s syndicated Boston Globe column issues a call to arms on climate change: “Can we change from debating global […]
A series of concerts “bigger than Live Aid” are being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before a global audience of two billion, […]
Though they may appear very simple, intensive time and effort goes into plotting the jacket covers for intended blockbuster novels like Michael Crichton’s Next. Today’s backpage essay at the NY […]
Just how tough is it to sustain news and thereby public attention to the problem of global warming? Exhibit A: The week after the release of the IPCC report, the […]
Where once it was the province of against-the-establishment rebels and citizen media types, major institutions are now taking wide advantage of blogging technology to promote their message or to expand […]
Irony can be an effective persuasion tool. As pictured on the Drudge Report this morning with the headline: HEARING ON ‘WARMING OF PLANET’ CANCELED BECAUSE OF ICE STORM. The headline […]
Want to keep up with the details of stem cell funding and politics in California? The California Stem Cell Report is the place for you. And while you are there, […]
Something’s rotten in Denmark. Conservatives once again have sprung a media trap on Al Gore, but this time overseas.At the Wall Street Journal , “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg and Danish […]
Across most nationally representative surveys, if you measure Evangelical christians as those respondents who identify themselves as “evangelical” and who also, when given a multiple choice question, answer that the […]
At the Washington Post today , Juliet Eilperin and Michael Grunwald report on the diverging priorities of House speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic chairmen John Dingell and Henry Waxman, […]
I’ve noted in recent presentations and posts the strong role of partisanship in how Americans view the science and relative urgency of global warming. Yet according to a Pew survey […]
By far, the most successful buzz marketing campaign of the past decade has been Apple’s ability to dominate news coverage with the release of their latest i-products. NPR’s On the […]
For those that have been following the debate over the recent Chronicle of Higher Ed rankings of top US research universities, the publication is currently hosting an interesting discussion with […]
Back in the fall, after hosting a class “blog” debate on the Internet and community, more than a few readers asked me whether I would post the reading list for […]
Bird flu is suddenly back in the news as officials in Indonesia report new cases this week. In a spring 2006 Skeptical Inquirer Online column, after evaluating trends in reporting […]
In case you missed it, ScienceBlogs lit up last week with news that Federal Way school district in Seattle has banned Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, in part because the presentation […]