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From the 40th floor of the 7 World Trade Center building in downtown Manhattan, I’m live-blogging today to cover an important symposium exploring the historic gulf between science and the humanities.
I think it unfortunate that you allowed Revkin's comments regarding the sharing of blame to end this section. It may be the way it ended the discussion, but as a consumer of science journalism, I am not willing to agree with that assessment
Just a few days before this session, the Senate Committee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on the Future of Journalism. I was particularly interested in the testimony of David Simon (Producer: The Wire and one time Reporter) as well as that of Stephen Coll (ex-Editor, Washington Post.) They both made reference to the loss of expertise and institutional knowledge in the media that is happening every day. Revkin is one of the few who manage to communicate the science but even he is not without his critics for allowing the he-said, she-said appearance of fairness overshadow the presentation of fact.
If science journalism, and the public perception of science has a problem, we might look to the hearing in Washington for a solution rather than to this discussion in NY.
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