Post By Nicholas Stix on 10/14/2009

A Reporting Problem Looms: LA Times Story on Laid-Off Teachers is Plagued by Non Sequiturs and Omissions

If you’re writing a news story about thousands of laid-off educators–27,000 in California alone–what do you then abruptly begin talking about in the same article? Why, the need for spending milli...
Article By Cornelius J. Troost on 10/07/2009

Hijacking Darwin

The year 2009 has been the sesquicentennial celebration of Darwin's great book On the Origin of Species. Biologists, among many others, have been happily praising the luminous figure usually shown in ...