Researchers Hope Obama Team Will Reinvigorate Role of Science Adviser:
In recent years, though, some critics have charged that the science adviser's influence has reached another low under President George W. Bush....
"Some critics"? Like, the entire scientific community? The entire science blogosphere? All the science journalists? Because of the obvious fact that the Bush Presidency is the pinnacle of the Republican disdain for reality, empiricism and science. Governing from the gut instead of from the brain. Governing by listening to direct messages from the Lord.
Because the conservative worldview is this:
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality--judiciously, as you will--we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
There, fixed it for you...
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This is exactly at the root of why the profession of journalism is completely utterly dead, gone, and rotting. Journalists have become lazy fucks who continually abdicate their duty to FIND OUT THE MOTHERFUCKING FACT OF THE MATTER, and instead rely on fake-ass balance between competing narratives.
This plays right into the hand of the sick-fuck right-wing, as all they have to do is trot out some phony propaganda shill, and the dumbfuck "journalists" go all "while it has been asserted that X, some critics say that not X", without doing even the slightest bit of investigation that would reveal to them that the OVERFUCKINGWHELMING CONSENSUS among people who know what the fuck they are talking about, and are not either deranged wackaloon fuckwits or intentional propagandists, is "not X".
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | December 27, 2008 8:34 PM
Journos have been beaten into submission by the right-wing gasbags, so I agree with CPP, their profession is dead as a doornail.
Posted by: Tyler DiPietro | December 27, 2008 9:02 PM
Simply another example of the "false dichotomy" that we've had to live with for the last eight years, in which ignorant PBS journalists try yet again to hoe the non-existent "middle ground".
Also, another example of why I stopped donating to PBS and NPR. The politicization of PBS is reminiscent of the complete GOP takeover of the American Red Cross.
Posted by: Portofinoan | December 28, 2008 12:13 AM