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- From: men@colorado.edu (Matthew Newman)
- Subject: Re: Rivers in the sky?
- In-Reply-To: kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu's message of Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:23:02 GMT
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 10:16:35
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- In article <Jan24.052302.53208@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kjun@typhoon.atmos.colostate.edu (Pat Fitzpatrick) writes:
-
- > We saw it the article about "Rivers in the air," too, in the local
- > paper. I'll have to refrain comment until I see the actual journal
- > article ( Geophysical Research Letters hasn't arrived here yet).
- > I have seen many instances
- > where a journalist has misinterpreted a meteorology subject,
- > or just plain got the facts wrong. The journal will also give a
- > more rigorous description of this subject. Personally, I'm a bit skeptical,
- > but who knows........
- >
- > Anyway, what I'm really wondering is if anyone knows how the AP picks
- > their "weather stories." After all, most articles claim some kind
- > of *new* discovery in journals (or they wouldn't be accepted).
- > Does the writer plug it to a journalist? Is there a head science
- > investigator at AP? Doesn't AP also scout through other major
- > papers?
- >
-
- > Pat Fitzpatrick
-
- I can't speak in general so much, but in my own experience (I was a
- coauthor of an article in Science last year) it's a bit of both.
- My university put out a press release, which spurred an article in
- the local paper. On the other hand, Science also put out a press
- release (of a few articles in that week's edition, including mine),
- and I subsequently got a few calls from the media (including one
- from England), who didn't seem to have the facts of my work quite
- straight.
-
- Also, as I understand it, AP does have science writers--I suppose they
- might go through all the press releases of different journals, and
- look for something interesting.
-
- Matt Newman
- men@noaacrd.colorado.edu
-