Comments on: Tenure, University of Colorado, and the Local Newspaper http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Eli Rabett http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4254 Eli Rabett Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:58:17 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4254 You do not have a problem. This is a problem http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/dickeson2.pdf You do not have a problem. This is a problem http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/reports/dickeson2.pdf

]]> By: Roger Pielke Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4253 Roger Pielke Jr. Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:20:59 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4253 Colorado? Controversy? ;-) I actually tend to agree with John's perspective on this issue. However, when I saw the two headlines today I had to throw a bone to my colleagues who make the other case. Colorado? Controversy? ;-)

I actually tend to agree with John’s perspective on this issue. However, when I saw the two headlines today I had to throw a bone to my colleagues who make the other case.

]]> By: John Fleck http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4252 John Fleck Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:39:41 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4252 As an unbiased observer of the media scene (cough cough) I observe that all the denizens of any institution that is involved in even mild controvservy (that includes y'all there at the U of C, I think) believe that their local media carries some grudge against them. This does not mean that said denizens are wrong. As an unbiased observer of the media scene (cough cough) I observe that all the denizens of any institution that is involved in even mild controvservy (that includes y’all there at the U of C, I think) believe that their local media carries some grudge against them.

This does not mean that said denizens are wrong.

]]> By: Chad Brick http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4251 Chad Brick Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:36:11 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4251 You can have lots of fun hunting down all the little biases in media reporting (especially headline choice). Here is one that I noticed today that is relevant to this website: "Global warming blamed for 2005 hurricanes" http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/25/global.warming.hurricanes.reut/index.html You have to go half-way down the article (which many people don't do!) before you find quotes like this: "While many of the conference's 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame." Frankly, the relationship between hurricanes and GW is not well understood. While it is likely that there is some increase in intensity and/or frequency, we really don't know and definitely can't blame individual or a small set of hurricanes on GW, as the headline seems to indicate. Of course, I couldn't even find a corresponding article on foxnews.com. I am not sure which bias is worse. You can have lots of fun hunting down all the little biases in media reporting (especially headline choice). Here is one that I noticed today that is relevant to this website:

“Global warming blamed for 2005 hurricanes”

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/25/global.warming.hurricanes.reut/index.html

You have to go half-way down the article (which many people don’t do!) before you find quotes like this:

“While many of the conference’s 500 scientists seem to agree that a warming trend in the tropics is causing more and stronger hurricanes than usual, not all agree that global warming is to blame.”

Frankly, the relationship between hurricanes and GW is not well understood. While it is likely that there is some increase in intensity and/or frequency, we really don’t know and definitely can’t blame individual or a small set of hurricanes on GW, as the headline seems to indicate. Of course, I couldn’t even find a corresponding article on foxnews.com. I am not sure which bias is worse.

]]> By: Kevin Vranes http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4250 Kevin Vranes Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:43:12 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4250 Well gee whiz, the Chronicle of Higher Education wouldn't have a vested interest in this, would they? 8-) Well gee whiz, the Chronicle of Higher Education wouldn’t have a vested interest in this, would they? 8-)

]]> By: Roger Pielke Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3806&cpage=1#comment-4249 Roger Pielke Jr. Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:33:11 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3806#comment-4249 A reporter at the Camrea asks me to look at the coverage by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News: Rocky: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_4648538,00.html editorial: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/editorials/article/0,2777,DRMN_23964_4647470,00.html Post: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3749345 http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3746480 The Chronicle seems to be the outlier here. A reporter at the Camrea asks me to look at the coverage by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News:

Rocky:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_4648538,00.html

editorial:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/editorials/article/0,2777,DRMN_23964_4647470,00.html

Post:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3749345
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3746480

The Chronicle seems to be the outlier here.

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