{"id":2085,"date":"2009-12-14T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/another-loss-in-the-science-newsroom-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T16:24:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T16:24:35","slug":"another-loss-in-the-science-newsroom-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/another-loss-in-the-science-newsroom-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Another Loss in the Science Newsroom | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Revkin, the climate ace, is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org\/2009\/12\/andy-revkins-last-day\/\">leaving the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>. The trend towards fewer and fewer science journalists in the mainstream media continues&hellip;.and meanwhile, as we&rsquo;ve <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/2009\/12\/14\/a-classic-he-said-she-said-on-climate-science\/\">just seen<\/a>, in their absence we get Fox News style phony balanced coverage and attempts to artificially create scientific &ldquo;debates&rdquo; where none actually exist. <\/p><p>The situation is grim out there for coverage of science&hellip;just when we most need that coverage to be functional and healthy.<\/p><p>Note: CJR has more on the Revkin departure (he took a buyout and will apparently continue blogging at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Dot Earth<\/a>) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_observatory\/revkin_taking_nyt_buyout.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/662e5BX5nb4CoQEc4SsjkWDk_iA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/362a3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/662e5BX5nb4CoQEc4SsjkWDk_iA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/362a3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/362a3_nhx_Ta6RzFc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Revkin, the climate ace, is leaving the New York Times. The trend towards fewer and fewer science journalists in the mainstream media continues&hellip;.and meanwhile, as we&rsquo;ve just seen, in their absence we get Fox News style phony balanced coverage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/another-loss-in-the-science-newsroom-the-intersection.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}