tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post4324062715614948736..comments2023-11-02T04:18:45.711-07:00Comments on blogfish: Is fishing news fair to fishermen?Mark Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08121566220326246265noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-11449865923732195232008-06-12T11:08:00.000-07:002008-06-12T11:08:00.000-07:00I don't care for the question on coverage enough t...I don't care for the question on coverage enough to vote, but I think Will has it totally correct. <BR/><BR/>The thing I find surprising is the take of supposedly educated progressives making comments on left-leaning (but not necessarily "environmental") blogs when a fishery question gets raised. I read a post by the usually excellent David Niewart (Orcinis blog) on FireDogLake last week, David J. Hirshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04829712847518530459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-70973732021722480252008-06-12T06:48:00.000-07:002008-06-12T06:48:00.000-07:00Another interesting variation for the poll or disc...Another interesting variation for the poll or discussion would be separating out recreational fishermen and commercial fishermen. Given that separation, I think recreational fishermen get the most favorable news coverage, then the NGOs, then commercial fishermen get the least favorable coverage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-37010191195221172972008-06-11T06:25:00.000-07:002008-06-11T06:25:00.000-07:00Fishermen generally get more favorable treatment i...Fishermen generally get more favorable treatment in local coverage. However national coverage favors NGOs in the sense that NGO sponsored research on the demise of fish stocks (eg Worm & Meyer or Pauly etc)gets national headlines and then is repeated over and over. Studies which cast doubt on the findings do not get equall coverage.<BR/>Red ShinerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-44246209496329553102008-06-10T18:49:00.000-07:002008-06-10T18:49:00.000-07:00How about "who gets more favorable coverage for si...How about "who gets more favorable coverage for similar actions?" Like Tim suggested, do violent protests by fishermen or NGOs get more favorable coverage, or do positve conservation moves by either sector get more favorable coverage. <BR/><BR/>I think Pepijn is right...if environmental NGOs did what fishermen did in Brussels (violent protests pictured above), the environmental NGOs would be Mark Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10333424116503463839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-54724937915235678512008-06-10T18:06:00.000-07:002008-06-10T18:06:00.000-07:00You should probably have narrowed the poll questio...You should probably have narrowed the poll question down to "Whose violent protests get the more favorable news coverage, fishermen or ocean conservation NGOs?". <BR/><BR/>It's too broad at the moment. For example, I could say "NGOs" based on the fact that ocean conservation NGOs suggestions for the most "sustainable fish" to eat in restaurants tend to get more favourable coverage than reports ofTim Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00528429203587263083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22424144.post-85993796492428260372008-06-10T13:18:00.000-07:002008-06-10T13:18:00.000-07:00I voted for fair, but I post an important caveat -...I voted for fair, but I post an important caveat - at least as far as US media is concerned. I find that fishery management issues are more likely to appear in sport fishing columns than in the news section of any given paper. And, no surprise here, the slant is decidedly anti-fishery management (all too often interpreted as pro-fishermen). When fishery management does make into the news Will Bloomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13062977199563457915noreply@blogger.com