CBS News Publishes "Crackpot Global Warming" / Earthquake Story Posted: 3 months ago by ImNotBlue
"Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes?

"This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s..."
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Posted: 3 months ago by ImNotBlue:
I suppose the real question that comes out of this is, "Is this an example of bias, or just bad journalism?"
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Posted: 3 months ago by DoggySpew:
« ImNotBlue : I suppose the real question that comes out of this is, "Is this an example of bias, or just bad journalism?"
Well, biased journalism IS bad journalism.

But not all bad journalism is biased.
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Posted: 3 months ago by fentwin:
In the US it would appear that the mainstream media has degraded to tabloid headlines, speculation and shoddy research.


Remember, this is the land where Brittany Spears' hair was a top story for at least a week. The presence or absence of a lapel pin was debated for what seemed an eternity. The land of American "Idle".
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