Quaint Legacy Media
Interesting story, right?
Like to learn more, right?
The AP does nothing (no links, or even hints where to find more information -- all is left to the reader's Google skills) to provide more details:
EPA Sued Over Pesticides' Effects on Kids SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The government has failed to protect the children of farmworkers from the harmful effects of pesticides, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by farmworkers, environmentalists and public health advocates. The suit alleges that the Environmental Protection Agency has ignored scientific evidence that children who grow up near farms face increased health risks from exposure to hazardous pesticides from air, soil, water, food and clothing.The Legacy Media simply don't get it. Annoyingly quaint -- simply a regurgitation of a press release (difficult to write that). UPDATE: Variation on this theme noted at Winds of Change:
There will not be a revival in the Legacy Media until they start hiring experts in the area of reporting. Many sharp people can learn to improve their writing skills very quickly, but those who do not understand science, technology (and I notice many goofs in technical reporting) or foreign affairs will always muck up stories. Such enlightened (OK, common sense) thinking is not likely to occur anytime soon, and so the Blogosphere will clean up the mess and provide the necessary tutoring. And the Legacy Media will continue their downward spiral of irrelevance.. . . Go acquire actual expertise in something, for heaven's sake, then write about it. Or, these days, blog...."Yet there remains a problem: the media are not distrusted randomly, but because they have become untrustworthy in many ways. As an experiment in proving this to yourself, pick an area about which you know a great deal. Find a couple of news stories about it. How accurate are they? Do they miss a lot of information? Do they get basic facts wrong, and make unwarranted assumptions? Why would journalists be any more competent at some other issue, say international affairs, than they are about the issues you know well enough to doubt them on?"