This weeks assignment is mostly research. You should find a small Japanese story or advertisment that has spin and translate it into English and point out the spin. Due noon Sat. I will be looking at and marking your blogs this weekend so hope they are in good shape.
Here is one expample of a newsletter that exposes Enviroment related stories that the regular press tends to ignore.
Environment Newsletter
May 28th, 2007
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Ethanol Booms, Farmers Bust
By Lisa M. Hamilton, AlterNet
From the news these days you'd think farmers have never had a better friend than ethanol. But if you actually are a farmer, ethanol, with the high corn prices it brings, is looking less and less like a blessing -- and more like a curse. Read more »



What's all the hype about ethanol? Lisa Hamilton writes about how farmers are really faring with a new ethanol-infused corn market.

Anneli Rufus documents Al Gore's new book promotion tour and what the climate guru has to say about the media, politics and our future.

And Jane Lampman exposes a new creation "science" museum that has hundreds of scientists fuming.

As always, thanks for reading.



Al Gore: Modern Politics' Movie Star
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
Like the children's classic "A Fish Out of Water," Al Gore has outgrown his fishbowl. He has developed a following of millions simply by reminding people that they can use knowledge as a source of influence.



Natural History, Bible-style
By Jane Lampman, Christian Science Monitor
A new creation "science" museum puts dinosaurs in the garden with Adam and Eve. Some 700 scientists have deplored its inaccurate exhibits, warning that students who accept them are "unlikely to succeed in science courses."



Women Emerge as Powerful Advocates at UN Environment Conference
By Regina Cornwell, Women's Media Center
At this month's UN Commission on Sustainable Development, women's organizations were were the most organized and effect segment.



ExxonMobil: Sex, Lies and Global Warming
By Sara Whitman, HuffingtonPost.com
ExxonMobil is refusing change its employment policy to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. They claim they are already doing the right thing. But, given their record, how can we believe them?



EarthTalk: Is the Bush Administration Censoring Scientists?
E Magazine
Word of the White House censoring federal climate scientists on global warming was leaked in Bush's first term in office, but only in the last few years have federal employees been willing to go on record with such accusations.



Carbon Emissions Exceed Highest Assumptions Used in Climate Change Studies
By Peter N. Spotts, Christian Science Monitor
While global warming deniers argue that most climatologists are alarmists, CO2 emissions in the past few years have exceeded the levels used in scientists' models -- signaling even more cause for concern.



U.S. Undermines International Action on Global Warming
By Josh Dorner
The U.S. is trying to undermine to the work of G8 countries on global warming.






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