This week: Time slams public school teachers; what did their “bad apples” cover story get wrong? Plus we look at how ABC is framing the climate change debate among Republican politicians, and we note that election season pundits shouldn’t confuse the message they’re hearing from the minority of the population that votes with “the public.”
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Nice job picking up on Bush’s not-so-middle-ground opinions on climate change. Journalists must cease accepting the “I am not a scientist, so don’t ask me about climate change” dodge. Politicians are going to have to decide whether or not to act on climate change, so they are going to have to get informed, and they are going to have to stop saying “There is a broad range of scientific opinion on whether climate change is caused by humans.” If there is one person on the planet who believes the earth is flat, then technically that justifies the statement “There is a broad range of opinion on whether the earth is flat.” The “broad range” statement is a dodge and is irrelevant. It is the weight, not the range, of scientific opinion that matters. Most of the weight is behind man-made climate change.