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Mindwolf · 3761 days ago · link · · parent · post: America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
It's not just science reporting. It's all reporting. Science is the easiest to point to and say, "Look how bad that is!" It used to be that news was a prestigious job. The people who broke the story, the ones that did the extra leg work. Then it became television's loss leader Now it's not news. It's ratings. Get the most viewers so the ad revenues are higher. It has not been about news for a long time.
thenewgreen · 3761 days ago · link ·
Science reporting, as compared to political or general news reporting takes a base of knowledge that is harder to come by and takes time. If took some time, I could be a somewhat decent political reporter IMO but given the same amount of time, I'd be an inadequate science reporter at best.