Boffey, Philip M. (author), Rodgers, Joann Ellison (author), and Schneider, Stephen H. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19624
Notes:
Pages 81-91 in Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds.), Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. 277 pages.
In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog, Analysis of 100 articles identified from the Lexis-Nexis computerized database as containing reference to "global warming" in four U.S. newspapers during five months compared with articles about the topic in scientific literature. This comparison showed that "the media coverage of environmental issues suffers from both shallowness and pro-corporate bias. The biospheric implications of these two flaws are touched upon."
