{"id":12488,"date":"2014-01-06T14:59:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:59:46","slug":"brilliant-gmo-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=12488","title":{"rendered":"A Brilliant GMO Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/planning/ There’s a reason why journalism and writing professors implore their students to “show, don’t tell.<\/a>” Stories are more deeply felt when they play out with action and dialogue crafted around a narrative. Showing<\/em> is also a more effective means for imparting the essence of a controversial issue, news event, or research finding.<\/p>\n

Some journalists have transferred this skill really well to their blogs (like Ed Yong<\/a> and Deborah Blum<\/a>).\u00a0I haven’t been able to pull that off here, or in my issue-oriented pieces\u00a0elsewhere<\/a>. I tend to activate my story-telling brain only when I’m working on magazine feature stories, where I have a main character or two to draw out.<\/p>\n

Tramadol For Sale Online So for example, I did a lot of telling<\/em> in this 2012\u00a0Slate<\/em> piece<\/a> entitled, “GMO Opponents are the Climate Skeptics of the Left.” (It rankled many people I normally agree with on most political issues.) Others, such as Michael Specter, have made similar comparisons, pointing out<\/a>\u00a0the characteristics and commonalties of science denialism. \u00a0For progressives, this has become a touchy subject, especially as it relates to agricultural biotechnology. Amy Harmon’s latest feature<\/a> on GMOs in the New York Times <\/em>mentions this tension:<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists, who have come to rely on liberals in political battles over stem-cell research, climate change and the teaching of evolution, have been dismayed to find themselves\u00a0at odds with their traditional allies on this issue<\/a>. Some compare the hostility to G.M.O.s to the rejection of climate-change science, except with liberal opponents instead of conservative ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase Like her biotech-related orange story<\/a> last year, this latest one<\/a> about a conflict over GMOs in Hawaii is a masterpiece. Both are riveting stories that illuminate important aspects of the GMO debate. I thought this tweet best described Harmon’s latest work:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Buy Klonopin Online Overnight Brilliant journalism, a story structured to follow the thought process of a man who just wants to get it right. http:\/\/t.co\/NT5IpDcX2P<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy Alprazolam No Prescription \u2014 Tim McGarry (@camphorlane) January 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tramadol Online Purchase It’s brilliant because Harmon shows us not just one man’s struggle to sort out facts from fear-mongering, but also the mindset of those that he comes up against.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Order Tramadol Overnight There’s a reason why journalism and writing professors implore their students to “show, don’t tell.” Stories are more deeply felt when they play out with action and dialogue crafted around a narrative. Showing is also a more effective means for imparting the essence of a controversial issue, news event, or research finding. Some journalists have… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2724,2961,2962,2964,2967],"tags":[743,1126,1585],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-science","category-science-communication","category-science-journalism","category-select","tag-biotechnology","tag-gmos","tag-science-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}