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RE: National Geographic on Global Warming
I think you will find some bias in every publication
or news organization you consider. They reflect their
audience or subscribers as many are organized to be
either a profit corporation or sustaining "society."
As you noted, the views of National Geographic has
changed over the years. So has our society. Consider
our attitude toward Native Americans, where even the
term has evolved.
Of course, the issue of the decree of bias is very
much in the eye of the beholder. You may think they
are liberal, others may consider them truthful. I
certainly will not avoid reading an article in a
conservative or liberal paper, magazine, etc. I
personally believe that it is essential to see other
points of view. I have often found that not
everything I "believe" is necessarily true. In
business or government, if you surround yourself with
those who agree with you, you will hear what you want
to hear, but not necessarily what you NEED to hear.
--- "Dukelow, James S Jr" <jim.dukelow@PNL.GOV> wrote:
>
> Richard Hess wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf
> Of Richard L. Hess
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 10:46 AM
> To: bobcherry@cox.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: National Geographic on Global Warming
>
>
> At 12:06 PM 12/27/2004 -0500, bobcherry@cox.net
> wrote in the thread
> George Will on Global Warming:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html
>
> I need to counter with the National Geographic
> recent issue on the same
> subject. It's gotten to the point I don't know who's
> cooking what data.
>
> Yes, I've read the "Skeptical Environmentalist" but
> that was several
> years
> ago, National Geographic is now.
>
> Is National Geographic a political or scientific
> journal. Their original
>
> charter seems like they were a scientific
> organization, but I don't know
>
> about their goals and directions today.
>
>
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0409/feature1/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
> ==================
>
> National Geographic has always been a sort of
> quasi-scientific
> organization, serving primarily as a funder for
> geographic and
> scientific expeditions and a disburser of the
> results of those
> expeditions.
>
> Similarly, they have always had a political point of
> view. You can see
> this if you buy the full run of the magazine (which
> you can get on about
> a dozen CDs for a song) or, to a lesser extent, all
> of the maps
> (similarly available for a dance on several CDs).
> Read some articles
> from the 20s, 30s, or 40s and you see clear
> influence of the politics of
> the day -- tending toward the liberal side of the
> politics of the day,
> but only tending so.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Jim Dukelow
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> Richland, WA
> jim.dukelow@pnl.gov
>
> These comments are mine and have not been reviewed
> and/or approved by my
> management or by the U.S. Department of Energy/
>
> Do what you can with what you have in the time you
> have in the place you
> are.
>
> Nkosi Johnson
>
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