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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:53:59 +0000

Very true.

Journalism is entertainment, good journalists know how to present significant and important stories as entertainment.

Complex story has to be put in context, compressed, adapted and given a headline. In 2007 Chip Heath considered this very problem in the talk on finding the lead
http://fora.tv/2007/01/29/Made_to_Stick#fullprogram

Of course, AP story is a fine example of “made to stick” in Chip Heath’s terms.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:06:00 +0000

1) see “If sports got reported like science”

http://uffish.net/archives-new/2010/06/if-sports-got-reported-like-science.html

2) “But the media are supposed to be helping us to get past our natural tendency toward blunt-edged thinking. Instead, over and over it dangles juicy conclusions in front of us, appealing to our fear of disease and our urgent desire to give our babies …”

It’s called “the attention economy” :-( This is why economic incentives matter!

By: johne

johne — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:23:08 +0000

“Only many years later is it broken to us that the scientific method is more about eliminating false hypotheses than proving positive causation.”

Bingo! Probably the main reason stories like the AP’s, in the example, resonate so strongly.

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