Science and the media: time to experiment?

Beckett, Charlie (2008) Science and the media: time to experiment? [Online resource]

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The biggest stories of our age are based on science: global warming, abortion term limits, even the earthquake and cyclone disasters. And yet journalists, who usually have an Arts background, are notoriously poor at understanding the facts. Fiona Fox has written an excellent article about whether the media is getting better or worse at reporting in the age of what Nick Davies calls ‘churnalism’ in his book Flat Earth News.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2008 The Author(s)
Departments	Media and Communications
Date Deposited	23 May 2017 10:28
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/78387