Now that I've got your attention, let me explain.Deborah Gyapong—that's her on the right—has a blog called Deborah Gyapong (of course). According to her profile ...
Deborah Waters Gyapong’s journalism career spans more than 20 years in television, print and radio, including 12 years as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television news and current affairs programming. Deborah now covers religion and politics primarily for Roman Catholic and Evangelical newspapers.In a recent posting, Denyse O'Leary takes Rob Breakenridge to task, she comments on the op-ed article that Denyse published in the Calgary Herald (See Intelligent Design Creationism Is Just Anti-Evolutionism). Here are two quotations about Denyse O'Leary written by Deborah Gyapong.
Denyse, who is an expert on the various theories of evolution and intelligent design and a top-flight science journalist, ...No comment is necessary except to note that science journalism is in even worse shape that I imagined.
Denyse is the EZ [Ezra Levant] of intelligent design, i.e. she is well-informed, rational, and will eat you for breakfast if you don't have a logical, well-presented, well-researched factual argument.
[Hat Tip: Eamon Knight in the comments section of The Big Tent Springs a Leak.]
But if you do have a logical, well-presented, well-researched factual argument, she won't be able to eat you for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteProbably not.
You forgot the subtitle to that blog.
ReplyDelete"A blog on religion, politics and storytelling in an age when the truth seems stranger than fiction."
So best avoid the truth entirely.
Its clearly an ID blog.
Larry- thats a sarah palin move.
ReplyDeleteDenyse "well-informed", Deborah?
ReplyDelete"Well-informed", perhaps, of not much more than the Discover Institute's shallow misrepresentations of the theory to which she erects the official "alternate".
"Does evolutionary theory really say that?" is a question for which she does not seem to have the time.
Someone sent me scans of the articles and of some of the letters that showed up in the Herald with Breakenridge's and O'Leary's articles (part 1, part 2)
I just tried to publish a comment on her blog challenging the idea that O'Leary is well-informed. We'll see if it gets out of moderation.
ReplyDeleteDave Wisker
That's terrible but she's not technically a science journalist...
ReplyDeleteThat's terrible but she's not technically a science journalist...
ReplyDeleteJust for the record (and for someone who doesn't get to see the Canadian press very often) what sort of journalist is she? Does she have regular employment with any newspaper or magazine? Do her freelance articles get published often enough in the press to entitle her to be called a journalist? Does she satisfy any generally understood definition of "journalist"? Was Deborah Gyapong just accepting Denyse O'Leary's description of herself as fact?
I also published a comment on the blog that (nicely I thought) pointed out that O'Leary really isn't a journalist, as real journalists show both sides of an issue (except if they work for Fox of course). And, real journalists write pieces that actually are readable and make sense!
ReplyDeleteStill in moderation.
ReplyDeleteDave Wisker
"Still in moderation"
ReplyDeleteMine too. If she's like O'Leary, then she's probably not very tolerant of comments. O'Leary has now removed their from her sites, because according to her the Canadian Human Rights commission are going to come after her! It seems to have escaped her (as most things do) that other Canadian bloggers are quite happily allowing comments, but then of course they aren't nearly as important as Canada's Premier Journalist.
I too posted a comment, and you can bet it won't ever be published. What's the matter with Alberta? It's in Canada right?
ReplyDelete"What's the matter with Alberta? It's in Canada right?"
ReplyDeleteIt is in Canada, and it is where I grew up.
Alberta is the closest Canada has to a bible belt; the most northern and southern ends of the province are hotbeds of religious fundamentalism (mormons in the south, a mix of wierdo's in the north). As you can imagine, that sort of environment creates a great deal of support for the creationist movement.
In marked contrast, Alberta's two main cities are the exact opposite, and conflicts between the highly religious rural regions and the non-religious urban areas are quite common in the provinces politics.
A good example of the paradox, Alberta is home to two famous museums:
The Royal Tyrell Museum, a wold-famous paleontology institute which is located amidst one of the richest beds of dinosaur fossils in the world - there's even a dinosaur named after the province (Albertasaurus).
http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/
Alberta is also home to Canada's only creationist museum, which is located just a few minutes drive away from the Tyrell. It location was no chance - the religious zealots didn't like all of the things the big bad museum were saying about the earth not being 6,000 years old and all that, so they made a competing "museum" as close to next door as they could.
http://www.bvcsm.com/
Of course, the real irony is that the creationist museum owes its existence to oil money, and we all know where that oil came from...
truit says,
ReplyDeleteWhat's the matter with Alberta? It's in Canada right?
Yes, it is in Canada, but we're open to any offers.
How about we give Alberta to the USA in exchange for Minnesota?
(Long-delayed, but I assume Larry runs a comment-notifier):
ReplyDeleteFirst: What's with all the comments about Alberta above? O'Leary live in Toronto, and Gyapong in Ottawa.
Second: As expected, no comments have appeared at Debbie's blogpost. This is a common pattern over there. More telling: there is no trackback to Larry's post -- something that Blogger does automatically, unless the blog-owner tells it not to, or deletes such trackbacks manually.