Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps?

(With a nod to Brad DeLong.)

MSNBC’s story yesterday on the NAS perchlorate report said, “[a] new report from the National Academy of Sciences raises by 20 times the amount of rocket fuel pollution in drinking water considered ‘safe'. . .”, a statement that glosses over a myriad of important distinctions in its imprecision.

But it evokes such drama! It has conflict. . . and protagonists. . . and narrative. . .

. . . and it’s crap.