Sentences with phrase «false balance in»

Four other major print outlets — The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters and USA TODAY — avoided false balance in their coverage of the report.

By contrast, ABC, NBC and CNN did not include false balance in their coverage.

This is why the problem of false balance in media is so important, and why the Kochs have done such a great job in creating phony think tanks («crank tanks») populated with folks like Myron Ebell who, IMHO, just lie for pay, all day long, and provide the science - free views the media needs.

While we applaud their more accurate and informative climate stories, it does not excuse the Heartland - consulted false balance in this particular piece.

How does past research by Max Boykoff offer us a valid and reliable picture of trends relative to false balance in coverage of climate science?

Romm, for example, cites the phrase from the executive summary that the «era of false balance in media coverage is over.»

These types of hostile media perceptions and claims are even more likely the case when the financial support for a professional blogger depends in part on maintaining the assertion that pervasive false balance in coverage exists.

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.

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 change.

Unfortunately they are getting some exposure from residual false balance in the media.

Another way of saying it: Although we are seeing less outright false balance in climate coverage than a decade or two ago, bias against mainstream science understanding persists in the relatively subtle form of selective reporting of eyebrow - raising claims, which strengthen the impression that scientists are always changing their story, in which case, shrug.

* Contrary to Nisbet's finding, we believe that false balance in climate reporting persists, especially when it comes to the debate over costs and benefits of climate action.

Commenters to counter the phony skeptics please (not to mention the false balance in the article itself, if I read it correctly)?

At a recent debate on false balance in coverage, an additional potential solution was put forward by Evan Harris, the former Liberal Democrat MP who is now associate director of Hacked Off, which campaigns for the implementation of the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, which examined media practices and ethics.

Not exact matches

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.

Mr. Bernanke then left the realm of metaphor altogether to give an outright false explanation of the balance of payments and the upcoming Gang of 20 meetings in Europe.

In the words of Amos, these agents are people who make «the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,» who buy «the poor for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat.»

«No prophet is acceptable in his village» comes from Luke 4:24; Thomas balances the saying with the false addition, «no physician heals those who know him» (31).

Lovelace evaluates the current theological direction, concluding that one can detect in the growing acceptance of homosexuality a «false religion» (its antipathy toward Biblical revelation is a sign), a «cheap grace» (repentance is ignored), a «powerless grace» (the possibility of cure is denied), and an «antinomian ethic» (the balance between Law and gospel is undercut).

Since it constitutes a vital part of the cell's metabolism and physical integrity, in the case of false spikes occurring in these metabolic processes, PS restores to their previous levels and brings them in balance.

The general public is thereby lured into a false sense of security in the belief that they can get all their vitamins from a government - recommended «balanced diet.»

Chalamet, who also can be seen this season in supporting roles in Lady Bird and Hostiles, is an actor of great promise who doesn't strike a single false note in balancing the conflicting feelings running through him.

Meeting up in Columbia, Missouri, where the Ross's Western screened at the 2015 True / False Film Fest, they discuss the adventurous aspects of their films, the artistic ambitions that can hide behind an unpretentious demeanor, and the challenges of balancing an enjoyable life with the task of documenting the lives of others.

There are a few false finishes in the third act that threaten to upset the delicate balance of tone, but the script, from James Ivory of Merchant / Ivory fame, always givens us a reason to keep things going.

While it's understandable why school districts and others may want to claim a particular school works given pressure to perform (and pressure on balance is good in that it has led to some great new effective school models), we all have to be far more careful in not reinforcing false claims before having more substantial evidence that a school is working.

Meanwhile, while Vallas continues his false claim that he «balanced» Bridgeport's School Budget during his two year stay in Bridgeport.

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To mask the truth, Lanzana and Masanko sent false customer account statements and false tax documents to their clients and also posted false monthly account statements to their companies» websites showing balances in excess of $ 800,000 for a forex trading account that, of course, did not exist.

The DOJ argues that when a loan with known origination errors is certified by the lender to the FHA, with a subsequent claim submitted by the lender to the FHA after a default, the lender is in violation of the False Claims Act — because they knew or should have known the loan had defects when they submitted their certification, and yet still allowed the government to sustain a loss when the FHA paid out of the loan balance.

Dr. Cathy: In false pregnancy, or pseudo-pregnancy, the dog's hormones are out of balance and her body thinks it is pregnant but is not.

I was constantly balancing my scepticism and excitement up until the show in the hopes of trying to lessen any disappointment had the rumour been false.

We've commented before on the «false objectivity of balance», i.e. the tendency for many journalists to treat scientific issues — for which differing positions often do not have equal merit — in the same «he said, she said» manner they might treat a story on policy or politics.

[Response: The last thing any science needs are false epistemologies that are just hoisted up the flagpole in order to ignore the balance of evidence.

Especially in the US this «false balance» phenomenon is widespread.

There are some signs that journalists and editors are growing increasingly savvy in recognizing the false objectivity of «balance» in the treatment of scientific issues.

This phenomenon is different from the «false balance» issue that many environmental campaigners have focused on lately in blaming the media for stasis on climate policy.

And then he claims that «the increase in heat waves was largely balanced by a decrease in cold waves,» which is a popular climate sceptics argument but demonstrably false.

Another way to avoid the pitfall of false balance is to focus on research published in peer - reviewed journals rather than that announced in press releases.

Still, there are many other veteran sea - ice scientists (this is not false balance) who note that the complexity of this system has consistently defied predictions in either direction (see this year's Sea Ice Outlook forecasts to get the range of forecasts).

The BBC's viewers and listeners could soon be hearing a lot less hot air from climate change skeptics, under new guidance warning of the risk of «false balance» in science reports.

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.

I think one of the most important things media can do is not present issues of scientific fact in a false - balance way.

«BBC Today airs false statements by Lord Lawson in the name of balance,» Climate Feedback, August 10, 2017.

In the view of «mainstream» media outlets, getting or presenting both sides on the climate issue is a «false balance.»

Whenever the media has tried to give a hearing to the skeptical side, it has been battered by protests from its readership (e.g., PBS's interview of Anthon *), accusations of providing «false balance» (because consensus) and technical letters demanding in effect that the recipient disprove this or that aspect of the warmist case, something no media producer is ready or able to do.

This over-representation of the climate contrarian position in the mainstream media for the sake of false balance is undoubtedly the main reason why such a large percentage of the populace is unaware of the climate consensus.

The false belief in this magical equilibrium which the IPCC gang actually suggests can be maintained — another absurdity — is like the false vision of the magical «balance of nature» that doesn't exist in the real world either.

For these reasons and others, it is not possible to reach valid and reliable judgments about systematic patterns in news coverage either through anecdotal blogging about specific articles or by a lone individual reading through a population of articles, especially when the individual has a deep and longstanding commitment to a belief in widespread false balance.

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.

Mann and Toles argue that false balance has been further worsened by the decentralization of news sources, particularly the rise of the «right - wing echo chamber» led (at least in the U.S.) by Rupert Murdoch - owned outlets Fox News and The Wall Street Journal.