Covering the future with a different kind of environmental journalism
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009By David Poulson
So I missed ABC’s “Good Morning America” feature on global climate change last night. But after reading a Wall Street Journal opinion piece on the reporting technique, I’ll make sure to check it out.
It appears to pioneer a journalism technique by telling a story through the eyes of a fictional character living in a world that does not yet exist. I’m not qualified to comment on this until I watch it. It’s online.
But I am interested in this comment in the WSJ piece:
Bob Woodruff, host of the special, called making up what will happen in the future “a different kind of journalism.” The segment quoted him saying, “not a prediction of what will happen, but what might happen.”
That certainly is “a different kind of journalism.” If anyone has seen it, please weigh in with a comment.
