Looking past El Nino.(Editorial)

World Watch | September 1, 1998| | Copyright

Children, one old aphorism had it, should be seen and not heard. Quaint as this view may seem today, it befits the mainstream media's treatment of one of the biggest babies to make headlines in recent years. To be sure, reporters witnessed - and recorded with religious fervor - the Christ Child, or El Nino, of 1997-98. But were they really listening to it?

Most press were not immediately converted to the cause of El Nino. When a succession of prominent scientists began - as early as the summer of 1997 - to warn that the phenomenon could become one of the century's ...

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