Whither Advocacy Journalism?

摘要

An interview with Howard Ernst, professor of political science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and author of Fight for the Bay: Why a Dark Green Environmental Awakening is Needed to Save the Chesapeake Bay (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009, $19.95, paperback).rnFrom Rachel Carson's findings on the hazards of the DDT to the spillage of factory-produced toxins at Love Canal in New York, major news outlets in the twentieth century vigilantly exposed environmental hazards to the public.