I’ve long been a fan of the High Country News, not least because they’ve given good work to some of the wonderful students at the best science writing program in the country (I’m supposed to say that, which doesn’t make it untrue).
But these lines from a post reminded me of what makes HCN such bright spot in my MSM reading these days
If natural gas was going to try and pick me up at a bar, the encounter would likely go like this:
Gas: “I’m low-carbon, cute, and widely available.”
Me: “You’re not that cute.”
That’s from a post by HCN Social Network Editor Stephanie Page Ogburn on the marvelously named The Goat Blog, and it is just a treat of journalistic writing in the context of old+new media.
Smart, funny, instantly engaging and all that you need to read on to get a nuanced reaction, backed up by actual real data, to the prospect of natural gas as a bridge fuel from the high to low carbon emission energy system I devoutly hope my son will see.
It can be done; journalism is not dead — and the seeds of its next incarnation can be found, often, far, far from the Bos-Wash corridor.
Image: Filippo Palazzi, “Hay Car Attacked by Goats,” 1857
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