With Mel Gibson’s DWI arrest and associated comments about Jews, re-newed attention has been focused on the content and possible effects of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. The film […]
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With Chris Mooney, over at Skeptical Inquirer Online, we have a lengthy article evaluating coverage of the hurricane-global warming debate. We interviewed the major science writers, columnists, and political reporters […]
A study released this week by the Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-leaning British think tank, criticizes the UK media for engaging in a dominant “alarmist” interpretation of global […]
Gallup has released a poll report detailing trends in Gore’s favorability ratings, indicating that despite the speculation that Inconvenient Truth has morphed the image of the VP in the public’s […]
Since last fall, poll questions across surveys have tapped public belief in the link between hurricanes and global warming. In this post, I provide a round up of poll findings […]
In the latest issue of the journal Science Communication, David Sachsman, James Simon, and JoAnn Valenti report on their findings from a census survey of environmental reporters across the Pacific […]
For readers in the Beltway, I will be presenting at this upcoming panel on blogging sponsored by the DC Science Writers Association. It’s free if you don’t plan to partake […]
The journal Natureruns a story on the 50 most visited science-related blogs as ranked by Technorati. Only evolution stands out as a dominant special focus, though several very popular blogs […]
According to BoxOfficeMojo, the weekend take for Inconvenient Truth dropped to $1.16 million this week, down from $1.597 million last week, $2.016 million two weeks back, and $1.9 million three […]
In an editorial in the latest issue of BIOSCIENCE magazine, editor Timothy M. Beardsley discusses the importance of framing when it comes to communication strategy, and highlights some of the […]
In yesterday’s Washington Post, David Broder focused on the Wisc. Governor race, and the ability of Democratic incumbent Jim Doyle to re-define stem cell research around economic development in the […]
Global warming is tapping the cultural zeit geist, with 2006 on track to smash an all-time record for news attention (more on this soon), and various film and TV events […]
From the Denver Post, and highlighted on Drudge:President Bush will likely cast the first veto of his presidency if the Senate, as expected, passes legislation to expand federal funding of […]
Over at Nanopublic, my colleague Dietram Scheufele, currently on holiday in Germany, follows-up on the German pharmaceutical campaign I highlighted on my old blog back in January. The ad campaign […]
Just released this afternoon….FRIST ANNOUNCES STEM CELL VOTE SCHEDULEWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., (R-Tenn.) today announced the following schedule for voting on stem cell legislation […]
The media, policy, and public agenda can be said to have a “limited carrying capacity.” Since neither news organizations,members of Congress, nor the public can devote equal amounts of resources […]
Last week was the ten year anniversary of the birth of the cloned sheep Dolly. Looking around for good examples of visual framing for a course I teach in Political […]
The political debate over stem cell research in Australia is following a pattern similar to the controversy in the U.S. This week, after Australian PM John Howard announced that he […]
Previously I posted that journalists and news organizations have a “limited carrying capacity,” meaning that they can’t pay attention to all issues all the time, so that when one issue […]
I’m sorting through all the news coverage this week, and will be having posts forthcoming summarizing the major frames and narratives that appeared in Editorials, Op-Eds, soundbites, and news coverage, […]
Below I provide an overview of the Editorials printed at the national and major regional newspapers. Without exception, the newspapers denounce Bush’s decision. Most go with the “moral inconsistency” angle: […]
The Bush administration isn’t the only government opposing the expansion of publicly-funded ESC research. This week, Germany joined with Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia in opposing a EU […]
I run against the tastes of my generation in that I have never been much of a fan of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. As a recent study finds, I […]
In my latest Science and the Media web column at Skeptical Inquirer Online, I take a look at the current debate over re-investment in nuclear energy as a means to […]
In 2004 when The Day After Tomorrow hit theaters, I wrote this column evaluating its possible impacts. Later, Anthony Leiserowitz followed with a study appearing in Environment magazine assessing the […]
Over the weekend, there was a Bigfoot sighting near my parents’ house in Clarence, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. The sighting is complete with the following photograph. See how […]
What research would I be focused on if I weren’t currently studying the interactions between science, media, and politics? It would have to be the role of the news and […]
The “Economic Competitiveness” frame is one of the dominate ways that proponents of science try to rally public support for investment. Historically, first in the context of the Cold War, […]
It’s rare in media coverage to see a focus on the PATENTS/PROPERTY RIGHTS dimension of stem cell research, even though patents are the engine driving research. But this weekend, the […]
In this news release from Focus on the Family, Senator Sam Brownback pushes the SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY frame in arguing against the Spector-Castle ESC bill, claiming that ESC is “speculative” science […]