Over at Nanopublic, my colleague Dietram Scheufele, currently on holiday in Germany, follows-up on the German pharmaceutical campaign I highlighted on my old blog back in January. The ad campaign […]

Just released this afternoon….FRIST ANNOUNCES STEM CELL VOTE SCHEDULEWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D., (R-Tenn.) today announced the following schedule for voting on stem cell legislation […]

The media, policy, and public agenda can be said to have a “limited carrying capacity.” Since neither news organizations,members of Congress, nor the public can devote equal amounts of resources […]

Last week was the ten year anniversary of the birth of the cloned sheep Dolly. Looking around for good examples of visual framing for a course I teach in Political […]

The political debate over stem cell research in Australia is following a pattern similar to the controversy in the U.S. This week, after Australian PM John Howard announced that he […]

Previously I posted that journalists and news organizations have a “limited carrying capacity,” meaning that they can’t pay attention to all issues all the time, so that when one issue […]

I’m sorting through all the news coverage this week, and will be having posts forthcoming summarizing the major frames and narratives that appeared in Editorials, Op-Eds, soundbites, and news coverage, […]

Below I provide an overview of the Editorials printed at the national and major regional newspapers. Without exception, the newspapers denounce Bush’s decision. Most go with the “moral inconsistency” angle: […]

The Bush administration isn’t the only government opposing the expansion of publicly-funded ESC research. This week, Germany joined with Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Malta and Slovenia in opposing a EU […]

I run against the tastes of my generation in that I have never been much of a fan of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. As a recent study finds, I […]

In my latest Science and the Media web column at Skeptical Inquirer Online, I take a look at the current debate over re-investment in nuclear energy as a means to […]

In 2004 when The Day After Tomorrow hit theaters, I wrote this column evaluating its possible impacts. Later, Anthony Leiserowitz followed with a study appearing in Environment magazine assessing the […]

Over the weekend, there was a Bigfoot sighting near my parents’ house in Clarence, New York, a suburb of Buffalo. The sighting is complete with the following photograph. See how […]

What research would I be focused on if I weren’t currently studying the interactions between science, media, and politics? It would have to be the role of the news and […]

The “Economic Competitiveness” frame is one of the dominate ways that proponents of science try to rally public support for investment. Historically, first in the context of the Cold War, […]

It’s rare in media coverage to see a focus on the PATENTS/PROPERTY RIGHTS dimension of stem cell research, even though patents are the engine driving research. But this weekend, the […]

In this news release from Focus on the Family, Senator Sam Brownback pushes the SCIENTIFIC UNCERTAINTY frame in arguing against the Spector-Castle ESC bill, claiming that ESC is “speculative” science […]

I ran across this excellent short ten-minute film highlighting the persistent negative stereotypes of Arabs in Hollywood film and television. Watch it. Definitely worth checking out.According to the film site, […]

Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank detailed the GOP’s effort to frame the debate over a pull out from Iraq, as a decision to “cut and run.” The phrase has […]

Yesterday Peter Whoriskey of the WPost detailed the weaknesses in the dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee in Florida. If the dike failed, as might happen if a major hurricane hit the […]