by frog
The Science Media Centre (SMC) launches today, mirroring similar initiatives overseas.
The SMC is an independent source of expert comment and information for journalists covering science and technology in New Zealand. Here we feature the opinions of leading scientists on breaking news stories and provide background reports and tools for both journalists and scientists. Our aim is to promote accurate, bias-free reporting on science and technology by helping the media work more closely with the scientific community.
It’s a great idea, assuming that there is clear delineation between what is science and what is opinion. Journalists struggle to tell the difference at the best of times and often conflate them in their reporting. I just hope that they take advantage of the service on offer. The number of new (non-existent) scientific notations and non-existent organisations I see in the papers on a regular basis is staggering. With editing budgets being slashed and work outsourced, rigorous fact checking is becoming increasingly rare in the main stream media.
It would be a ray of light to get more science based facts into our reporting, so welcome SMC!
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
It’s a great idea, assuming that there is clear delineation between what is science and what is opinion.
It would be a ray of light to get more science based facts into our reporting, so welcome SMC!
Surly you don’t mean that !
how can you continue your manmade global warming con if you bring real science into it
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lol
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Wow, I was wondering how long it would take this to be highjacked into a global warming skepticism rant. I didn’t exactly expect it to be done in the first post
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Well come on then Panda, let’s see the science and then see what you make of it. By the way what science do you specialise in ? Cod science is it ?
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