Careening coverage of new energy technologies

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Covering renewable energy is a challenge that many reporters are failing. That's from a recent seminar at Harvard’s Kennedy School, discussed in CJR's The Observatory. The three stages of renewable energy coverage: 1. "This technology is going to save America." 2. "The technology is a fraud." 3. "The technology ... isn’t going to save the planet, but there is a place for it."

March 3, 2011

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