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Entries by Charles Warner from 04/2010

Survey Shows Many TV Weathercasters Are Dumb

| Posted 04.01.2010 | Media
Read More: Glenn Beck, NY Times, Keith Olbermann, John Coleman, Rush Limbaugh, Columbia Journalism Review, Don Imus, Media News

Climatologists are those who are scientists. Meteorologists are not scientists and don't know what they are talking about when it comes to predicting long-term weather trends.

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The Media Curmudgeon is Taken to Task

| Posted 04.04.2010 | Media
Read More: Tv-Weathercasters, Global Warming, Weatherman, Charles Warner, Media News

Guest blogger Jiri Nechleba takes the Media Curmudgeon to task with the following intelligent rebuttal to my last post.

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2010 Pulitzer Prizes: Good News

| Posted 04.21.2010 | Media
Read More: 2010 Pulitzer Prizes, NY Times, Pulitzer, National Enquirer, Wall Street Journal, Pulitzer Prize, Paul Steiger, Media Game Changers 2010, Media News

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes were good news that not only reinforced the notion of what good journalism is, but they also, by what they left out, reminded us of what bad journalism is.

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CNN's John King Panders to Deniers

| Posted 04.28.2010 | Media
Read More: Lou Dobbs, Msnbc, Cnn, John King, Birthers, Al Gore, Media News

What John King has reaffirmed is that news on television is all about arresting images, and not about any underlying, complicated truths or messy realities.

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