There are so many issues and topics that it is hard to not find an
area to touch upon (environmental information and controversies in
particular).

hope i can get any reference suggestion from anyone with dtail instance for~

1. Case study on any issue about science in the media.

2. Evaluating information sources for a scientific issue.

3. Researching how journalists who fabricated information got away
with having their work get into press.

4. Comparing scientific news releases from various sources.

5. Researching situations when science information is manipulated by
(pick one) the government, pharmaceutical advertisers, Universities,
activist advocacy organizations.

please reply asap

Thanks for asking!

My research has located Reference suggestions in each of the
categories you requested.


1. Case study on any issue about science in the media.

Earth & Environmental Science Journalism
Case Studies in Earth and Environmental Science Journalism
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/edu/eesj/casestudies/EESJcasestudies.html


Science in the News
A Cross Cultural Study of Newspapers in Five European Countries
http://www.saasta.ac.za/pcst/papers/papers/holliman1.pdf


Harvard University Gazette - Frankenfood (Conference Summary)
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/12.05/11-biofood.html

Conference Proceedings
http://pewagbiotech.org/events/1121/proceedings.pdf




2. Evaluating information sources for a scientific issue.

Evaluation of Information Sources
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library 
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm

How to Evaluate an Internet Information Source
http://biome.ac.uk/guidelines/eval/howto.html

Virtual Salt - Evaluating Internet Resources
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

How To Evaluate Science News Stories
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4685

How to Evaluate Sci/Tech Journals
http://www.asu.edu/lib/noble/library/eval_jrl.htm




3. Researching how journalists who fabricated information got away
with having their work get into press.

Ex-USA Today Reporter Faked Major Stories
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-03-18-2004-03-18_kelleymain_x.htm

PublicFiction.org - It Seemed Real But It Wasn't
http://publicfiction.org/cat_journalists.html

At Amazon:

The Fabulist,  by Stephen Glass 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743227123/

Burning Down My Master's House, By Jayson Blair
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/193240726X/



4. Comparing scientific news releases from various sources.

Google News Sci Tech
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Google News groups sources for each article. Click on the > and ##
Related link for any story.

http://news.google.com/news/en/us/technology.html

Eureka Alert - News By Subject
http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/space.php

SciCentral - Gateway to the Best Scientific News Sources
http://www.scicentral.com/

Science News Websites
http://www.grauhall.com/news.htm



5. Researching situations when science information is manipulated by
(pick one) the government, pharmaceutical advertisers, Universities,
activist advocacy organizations. 

Welcome to Bushworld
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/11/opinion/meyer/main605270.shtml

Junk Science
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/030204C.shtml


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frankenfood case study


I hope these references meet your needs. If you have questions about
the links provided, please feel free to ask for clarification.

---larre

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Request for Answer Clarification by gft-ga on 07 Apr 2004 17:12 PDT

please tell me how individual cases related to each other with severals sentences.

thankx

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Request for Answer Clarification by gft-ga on 07 Apr 2004 17:13 PDT

please tell me how individual cases related to each other with severals sentences.

please do not just give me the source, please tel me in detail why you
chose those references.

thankx

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Clarification of Answer by larre-ga on 07 Apr 2004 18:17 PDT

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand exactly what you're after. I
interpreted your question as a request for a variety of research
sources for your own reference. The sources chosen are not necessarily
related to each other.

You want descriptions of each source instead of suggestions?  

---l

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Clarification of Answer by larre-ga on 07 Apr 2004 18:25 PDT

You want me to choose links in each category and write about them?

Is this homework of some sort?

---l

not helpful