http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/2009/12/11/mcsweeney-s-san-francisco-panorama-beautiful-and-strange.aspx

Also note the link in there to the Sports Illustrated tablet demo; pretty remarkable.

Incidentally, I’m not sure I agree with her, but as one heck of a science reporter, we should listen to Angier.

E-mails suggest science not faked, but doubt lingered was the headline of the AP story. The AP said it had done an “exhaustive review” of the hacked emails between climate change researchers.

But wait! It’s never over til it’s over: the Daily Mail piece apparently also did their own “exhaustive review“.

The lesson: I don’t think any of us know enough to know, but it underscores the importance of you as journalists not pursuing an agenda on any side of a hot political issue. The best thing you can do for the reader is tell the straight and honest story, even if it looks like it’s bad for “your side.” As Shakespeare wrote in The Merchant of Venice: the truth will out. Help that happen, wherever it may take you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens–Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html

Meantime, a few of you have mentioned your blog times being off. Sometimes that just happens, but sometimes it can be fixed. If yours are not accurate, please try this:

Dashboard > General Settings

On that page are a couple of choices on how you display your day and date and time. Please re-fill those in, then save. We’ll see if that helps.

Deadline reminder: your final blog post is due the week of Dec 14-20. You don’t *have* to wait til that week to write about the interview, but you *can* wait until then.

You will need to post a total of eight blog entries, including both your reporter interview and your report this week on the Baron-Ainsley Globe session Thursday.

To prepare for that interview,  please read chapters 8 and 9 in Stovall — Reporters and Reporting for class on Tuesday, Nov. 24. In particular, pps. 157-162 on Interviewing. Even more in particular, note the Interviewing Tips box on p. 161.

So before assuming that WBZ-TV doesn’t know their Green Street from their Stonybrook, I decided to DVR the news tonight, to see what angle they are taking on the iPhone theft at Stonybrook story. I’m puzzled, but I will be interested to see.

UPDATE: OK, just saw the story. The live shot, and all of the MBTA B-roll was shot at Green Street station, but there was no mention of specific stations; only a general story about the theft of mobile phones on the T, period. Not iPhones at Stonybrook. Why do you think they shot it at Green Street? My guess is a prosaic one: because the live truck can easily part at the curb at Green Street, but would block traffic more at Stonybrook. I have no idea if that’s the reason, but that mundane fact would be my guess.

Thanks.