By Orson Scott Card, Rhinoceros Times
Here’s a story you haven’t heard, and you should have.
An intelligence source, working for a government agency. He’s not a spy, he’s an analyst. He uses computers to crunch numbers and at the end of his work, out pops the truth that was hiding in the original data. Let’s call him “Mann.”
The trouble with Mann is, he has an ideology. He knows what he wants his results to be. And the original numbers aren’t giving him that data. So the agency he works for won’t be able to persuade people to fight the war he wants to fight.
Cornelia Dean, New York Times
Framing Science
Witness the analysis for the top most covered stories at the major news outlets over the last five weeks, as indexed by Pew.
Scott Suttell, Crain’s Cleveland Business
James Spann
Melanie Morgan of WorldNetDaily sheds light on efforts by The Weather Channel to move away from scientific forecasting of the weather to sensationalized leftist political advocacy in her weekly column.
Canada Free Press
WASHINGTON, DC – Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, said today’s hearing about the media and climate change revealed that “Scare tactics should not drive public policy.” The hearing’s purpose was to examine the media’s presentation of climate science and featured scientists and media experts.
Brendan O’Neill, Spiked Online
Whoever thought that serious commentators would want it made illegal to have a row about the weather? One Australian columnist has proposed outlawing ‘climate change denial’.