Research among experienced environmental journalists reveals a shift since 2000 in their view of "balance," as an element of objectivity. They now advocate a "weight of evidence" approach where stories reflect scientific consensus.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24348
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162 pages., Focuses on the language being used by politicians, scientists, journalists and companies regarding genetic modification of plants. Examines "how language shapes, and can be used to manipulate, our opinions."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06742
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Online via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. PhD dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication No. AAT 9009561. Source: DAI-A 50/11, p. 3396, May 1990. 2 psges.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28079
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Pages 95-99 in Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi (eds.), Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, New York, New York. 286 pages., Examines the uneasy relationship between science and journalism, including influences on coverage of issues such as environment and conservation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22556
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Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture, conference of the National Association of Science Writers, University of Tennessee, March 17, 1997. 8 pages., "If science was ever a thing apart, a special way of living and of seeing things, that time is past. Today, science is the vital principle of our civilization. To do science is critical, to defend it the kernel of political realism. To define it in words is to be, quite simply, a writer, working the historical mainstream of literature."
