Media Mediocrity - Waging War Against Science: How the Television Makes Us Stoopid! - Softcover

Zurawski, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552664007 ISBN 13: 9781552664001

Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2011

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From science channels and documentaries to fictional and children’s programming, television brings a myriad of scientific discoveries and theories into the homes of people around the world. While television is an important intermediary between society and its understanding of science, this record argues that the science we learn on TV is inaccurate, misleading, and sometimes even dangerous. Dealing with issues such as tobacco consumption, global warming, and intelligent design?as well as a host of pseudoscientific pursuits like UFOs, ghosts, and the afterlife?this illuminating account examines how producers’ pursuit of ratings and profit trump any desire to provide the audience with an accurate knowledge of science.

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Richard Zurawski is a meteorologist, documentary film producer, TV host, writer, university lecturerer, public speaker, and media expert and personality. He is the author of The Maritime Book of Climate Change and Richard Zurawski’s Book of Maritime Weather. He lives in Halifax, Canada.

Richard Zurawski is a meteorologist, documentary film producer, TV host, writer, university lecturerer, public speaker, and media expert and personality. He is the author of The Maritime Book of Climate Change and Richard Zurawski’s Book of Maritime Weather. He lives in Halifax, Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1552664007
• ISBN 13: 9781552664001
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande