Journalism Issues

Class:

When Mark Miller visited us on Thursday, he mentioned his view that global
warming is the most important single news story facing the planet.
Elizabeth Kolbert, a former New York Times journalist who now free-lances
for The New Yorker magazine and other publications, lives in Williamstown.
I am going to try to get her to come visit our class and talk about why
global warming is not covered on front pages daily.

Meanwhile, here are some links.

Here is a Sept. 19, 2005, update by Kolbert, from the New Yorker, on what
less Katrina teaches about global warming:
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/campaigns/sgw/global_warming/28

An interview on the New Yorker site with Kolbert about her series:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050425on_onlineonly01

Link to a PDF download of the entire three-part series:
http://www.calcars.org/newyorker-kolbert-climate-apr-may05.pdf

Story about scientific opposition to global-warming research:
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/aug/business/pt_wsj.html

An excellent blog report on the series:
http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2005/05/global_warming_.html

Here is a very critical letter about Betsy's series, claiming she wrote "a long
editorial on behalf of government intervention to stamp out carbon dioxide."
It's written by Jude Wanniski, who died in August, and was a Wall Street
Journal op/ed columnist and "supply side economy" advisor to Reagan:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wanniski/wanniski78.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski

Here is a link to a teaching/curriculum resource site which does a nice job of
extracting Kolbert's series key points:
http://www.teachablemoment.org/high/globalwarming.html

More blog reports:
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002586.html
http://hinessight.blogs.com/hinessight/2005/05/oregons_climato.html

Elizabeth Kolbert's fall, 2004, interview with New York Attorney General Eliot
Spitzer:
http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/04fal/briefings2.asp

Tom's Dispatch column about Kolbert's piece:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=3163

-- bill densmore

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