An environmental journalist's lament

Dying bees have become symbols of environmental sin, of faceless corporations out to ransack nature. Such is the story environmental journalism tells all too often. But it's not always the story that best helps us understand how we live in this world of nearly seven billion hungry people, or how we might square our ecological concerns and commitments with that reality. By engaging in simplistic and sometimes misleading environmental narratives -- by ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Roland F. Hirsch - Jun 25, 2011 - 2:25 PM PDT
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by Roland F. Hirsch - Jun. 29, 2011

This news analysis is excellent journalism. The author has provided considerable context for her discussion of environmental journalism, and the problems created by alarmist claims that go beyond what science knows. She has been personally involved in reporting on the issue for nearly a decade and thus can include a lot of background and explain it clearly. This is in the first issue of a new liberal journal. Well researched and written.

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