where is the expose when its appropriate?

[acroyear]

Why is the media advertising for this group?  Why didn't this AP article take the opportunity to expose these anti-science cretins for the liars they are, and the abuse they do to science and the children they lie to?

Pharyngula and Science, Shrimp, and Grits ask similar questions.   I find the article painfully uncritical and one-sided, omitting far more than it presents and making the liars they talk about look like the good guys...

Comments

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the facts are not hard to find.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

True. But (and this is going to sound so hedgey), are the facts related to the story? In this case, the story wasn't about *what* the creationists are teaching but *where*.

The actual disagreements between the two sides and facts of the science no longer are considered "news" unless something happens to bring them back to attention (such as the school board fights), and even then they are glossed over and used merely as background.