It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Mur...
It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Mur...
It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
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Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.
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N070.4495/7
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xv, 249 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Making News and Making Sense: The News That's "Fit to Print" -- Pt. I. The Ambiguity of News -- Ch. 1. The News that isn't there: Stories That Are - and Aren't - Covered -- Ch. 2. Much Ado About Little: Making News Mountains out of Research Molehills -- Pt. II. The Ambiguity of Measure...
Conclusion: Hard to Tell: Journalism, Science, and Public Policy - An Inherent Conflict?
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Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001.
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Maryland
Date Published
c2001.
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"Airplane crashes, the AIDS epidemic, presidential election polls and voting results, global warming, the latest cancer scare - all these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then - for news consumers - to understand. It Aint Necessarily So cuts through the miasma surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, an...
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It ain't necessarily so : how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality / by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
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c2001.
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0742510956 (alk. paper)
9780742510951 (alk. paper)
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070.4495
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991014226679702626
