While pounding away on my gym’s treadmill last night, a ridiculous number of TV screens staring at me from across the room, my eyes fixed on Lou Dobbs’ show. The TV’s sound was turned off and it showed closed-captioning in addition to CNN’s graphics. I was instantly struck by a mismatch between the phrases “antibiotic resistance” in the closed captioning and “killer virus” in the lower third. As just about everyone knows, viruses are antibiotic-resistant to begin with. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Science Journalism’ Category
Does Lou Dobbs Know the Difference Between a Virus and a Bacterium?
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
After taking a short hiatus from writing after graduation from the SHERP program at NYU, I’m ready to launch this blog properly.
What sort of blog is this going to be you might ask? What the heck is a collision of science, journalism and technology? Well, I’m not exactly sure either. But science, journalism and especially journalism fueled by technology (i.e. multi-media journalism) are passions of mine. (more…)
