Give credit where it's due: both the Los Angeles Times and NPR's Scott Simon ran excellent stories about the difficulty of being unemployed or underemployed this Labor Day weekend. I especially liked the LA Times story, because so often reporting on this topic falls into the either/or trap; that is, either you have a full-timeContinue reading “Media wakes up to underemployment on Labor Day”
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Environmentally Incorrect: the Peripheral Canal
…as depicted by the late, great Paul Conrad: We as a state have forgotten — if we ever knew — the environmental facts about the peripheral canal through the San Joaquin-Sacramento delta, but we remember this: the l982 vote against its construction was an expression of a resentment against Southern California. That's what Paul ConradContinue reading “Environmentally Incorrect: the Peripheral Canal”
LA Times: out of the fire, into the Eisner frying pan?
The Los Angeles Times is in the middle of a bankruptcy proceeding that is opaque, to say the least, from the outside; it's shed literally hundreds of reporters and editors over the last few years, its circulation has plummeted…but despite all that, it's been on fire this summer. Its series on the public pensions inContinue reading “LA Times: out of the fire, into the Eisner frying pan?”
Newspapers catch up to climate science
Or at least, The New York Times does… Is Weather Chaos Linked to Global Warming? Probably. "The summer’s heat waves baked the eastern United States, parts of Africa and eastern Asia, and above all Russia, which lost millions of acres of wheatand thousands of lives in a drought worse than any other in the historical record.Continue reading “Newspapers catch up to climate science”
La Nina expected back this year
As is often the case, after El Nino. But this McClatchey/Fresno Bee piece is an unusually good one, complete with a charticle designed for web postings. La Niña tends to influence wetter winters around the Canadian border, but drier conditions along the Mexican border. So Southern California — Los Angeles and San Diego — consistentlyContinue reading “La Nina expected back this year”
Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever
The famous columnist George Will drives even his fellow editorial writers a little nuts with his condescending dismissal of global warming. As the LA Times wrote in an editorial yesterday: You probably won't hear it from columnist George F. Will, Fox News commentators or the plethora of conservative blogs that have claimed global warming essentiallyContinue reading “Tracking 2010: in the race for the hottest year ever”
“I misquoted the Bible on national television”: Coleman Barks
Some of the best of our literary reviews have had the most trouble putting up a website. Perhaps the nature of literature — a desire to create something out of nothing that can last — is opposed to the nature of the web. The Internet never forgets — for better or worse. Human memory worksContinue reading ““I misquoted the Bible on national television”: Coleman Barks”
Environment gets 1.5% of news coverage in 2009
That's according to the Pew Center for Excellence in Journalism: Global warming gets most of the press that goes to the environment. (When was the last time you saw a headline that mentioned habitat?) But all the environmental news put together adds up to only about 1.5% of the total news in 2009. ToContinue reading “Environment gets 1.5% of news coverage in 2009”
No editors? No problem! Except that…
France's most famous intellectual revealed to be inept Googler. From the Times of London: When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his observations were greeted with the usual adulation. To support his attack, Bernard-Henri Lévy — a showman-penseur known simply byContinue reading “No editors? No problem! Except that…”
Accuweather: Storm is “war on the Southwest”
Oh, c'mon. Now Accuweather is just getting silly: The last and strongest in the train of Pacific storms will unleash a new round of flooding rain, mudslides, feet of mountain snow, damaging winds and severe thunderstorms on California and the Southwest into Friday. Is is an all out weather war being waged by the atmosphereContinue reading “Accuweather: Storm is “war on the Southwest””
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