{"id":33176,"date":"2011-03-27T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/truth-and-the-oped-pages-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T15:44:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T15:44:39","slug":"truth-and-the-oped-pages-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/truth-and-the-oped-pages-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"Truth and the Oped Pages | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve got a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/truth-and-oped-pages\">new post up<\/a> at DeSmogBlog, airing some of my outrage over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/118270544.html\">this<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/118542279.html\">exchange<\/a> in the <em>Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/em>. It&rsquo;s between a climate denier and John Abraham, and while Abraham gets the better of things factually and intellectually (of course) I don&rsquo;t think oped pages ought to be printing columns that, essentially, misinform:<\/p><blockquote><p>A few posts back I&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/consequences-he-said-she-said-journalism\">highlighted<\/a> new&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1460-2466.2010.01525.x\/pdf\">research<\/a> suggesting that &ldquo;on the one hand, on the other hand&rdquo; coverage of fact-based political divides leaves citizens in a postmodern funk, uncertain what the truth is and whether they are capable of discerning it.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s yet another reason why journalists have a responsibility to serve as arbiters of factual disputes&mdash;rather than thinking their job is done if they let one side say the sky is pink, but then provide a counter-quote from an expert saying that in fact it&rsquo;s blue.<\/p><p>What goes for journalists ought to go for op-ed pages. While it might be more difficult to design a study to test the effect on readers of an exchange like that in the&nbsp;<em>Star Tribune<\/em>, I would guess it is the same&mdash;making them feel helpless about discerning where the truth lies.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>You can read the full DeSmogBlog post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/truth-and-oped-pages\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Od1w8J8uecpBpnzv0K_0gFE-JqY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cc265_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Od1w8J8uecpBpnzv0K_0gFE-JqY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cc265_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\/cc265_y4rbpFfxPZQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cc265_BU73lneGXyE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve got a new post up at DeSmogBlog, airing some of my outrage over this exchange in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It&rsquo;s between a climate denier and John Abraham, and while Abraham gets the better of things factually and intellectually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/truth-and-the-oped-pages-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-33176","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\/33176"}],"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=33176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}