Sentences with phrase «as false balance»

The two bloggers appear to believe that journalists would run a story without actually reading the key relevant sections of the report, speak to the researcher about the complexities of the data, the background of the findings, the nature of the measurement of topics such as false balance, and the limits as to what can be said in terms of conclusions.

Not exact matches

The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

Although the FiveThirtyEight founder doesn't mention it (at least not yet), the media's desire for false equivalence or false balance likely played a role in the election's outcome as well.

Some far - fetched examples might be fraud, some sort of US asset freeze / repatriation, false accounting, improper checks and balances or insurances as it cuts costs to keep its TER down, moneys not properly segregated between account owners, computer error...

This is false as eating a balanced diet will suffice.

These can be counterproductive for babies as it gives them a false sense of balance, promotes bad posture and foot positioning, and doesn't allow for freedom of exploration.

This kind of false balance becomes a problem when one side is based on knowledge and the other is merely an opinion, as often occurs when policy problems intersect with science.

Be careful to find the right balance with gestures and don't come across as childish or false.

Regulators said the financial giant sold false debts to third - party collectors, including accounts with unlawfully obtained judgments, inaccurate balances, and paid - off balances — as well as selling debts that were owed by borrowers who are now dead.

«With current debate around the dangers of providing a false sense of «balance» on a topic as societally important as climate change, we're quite astonished that The Times has taken the decision to put such a non-story on its front page.

Although global warming strikes me as one of those issues where there is no real balance and it is wrong to create an artificial or false equivalence, there is no harm and some possibility of benefit in inviting skeptics about the human contribution and other factors to speak, but in a setting in which the context of the vast majority of scientific evidence and speakers is also made clear.

As one of those rare contrarian climate experts, he's often asked to testify before US Congress and interviewed by media outlets that want to present a «skeptical» or false balance climate narrative.

This finding is consistent with Boykoff's findings that as of 2006, false balance relative to the fundamentals of climate science had virtually disappeared from coverage at the 5 national trend - setting organizations he examined.

Allegations of widespread «false balance» in mainstream news coverage of climate change — as well as other mainstream media portrayals — have been voiced for more than a decade.

As discussed at the opening of Chapter 3, the «balance as bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coveragAs discussed at the opening of Chapter 3, the «balance as bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coveragas bias» study by Boykoff and Boykoff examining coverage through 2002 was famously featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and remains widely referenced today when bloggers such as Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coveragas Joe Romm assert that false balance remains a pervasive problem in mainstream media coverage.

As mentioned, outlets such as the NY Times and The Washington Post remain the subject of claims by bloggers and advocates that these news organizations engage in consistent patterns of false balance in coverage of climate changAs mentioned, outlets such as the NY Times and The Washington Post remain the subject of claims by bloggers and advocates that these news organizations engage in consistent patterns of false balance in coverage of climate changas the NY Times and The Washington Post remain the subject of claims by bloggers and advocates that these news organizations engage in consistent patterns of false balance in coverage of climate change.

As Chapter 3 in the Climate Shift report reviews, objectively defining what constitutes «false balance» in coverage of climate change is difficult, just as it is in coverage of politics generallAs Chapter 3 in the Climate Shift report reviews, objectively defining what constitutes «false balance» in coverage of climate change is difficult, just as it is in coverage of politics generallas it is in coverage of politics generally.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

First among them is false balance, which the book describes as giving false industry - friendly claims about climate change «an equal place on the media stage with actual science.»

As I return to in later sections, to validly and reliably measure false balance systematically across media coverage, researchers need to focus their measurement efforts on a clear, objective standard for assessing claims.

The «balance as bias» thesis from the paper remains frequently cited today when bloggers, scientists, and others assert that false balance remains a widespread problem, even among mainstream media.

[See additionally Q 11 for discussion of other forms of false balance that should be examined and the possible reinforcing impact on reader opinion of op - eds such as Will's.]

2 — The mainstream media does a generally poor job of reporting on fringe topics, falling for false balance, citing outliers as experts, and hyping sensational claims.

One solid victory was when the BBC announced they will no longer follow a pattern of false balance when dealing with science denial — putting a crank up against the consensus of scientific opinion as if they were equal.

The BBC has been accused of misleading the public about climate change, creating a «false balance» by allowing unqualified climate sceptics too much air time and giving opinion the same weight as fact.

Autism Awareness Month isn't as full of news stories about autism with false balance between science and antivaccine pseudoscience advocates as it was in years past.

A study of «climate change» or «global warming» coverage by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and USA TODAY from 2003 to 2006 by Environmental Studies Professor Maxwell T. Boykoff found that by 2006 avoiding false balance had become the norm, as seen in the graphic below.

Naturally, the ensuing discussion is not necessarily representative of the full spectrum of scientific discussion (painting it as such would likely lead to a «false balance»).

2) the media are still wedded to the false balance idea 3) the amount of stupidity in newspaper letter writers is infinite, as you personally have seen.

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature...

In some cases it's functional and in others, such as behind the toilet, it's false, to create the illusion of balance.