a perfect storm
The future of scientific inquiry!
Duty now for the future:
The media, policy, and public agenda can be said to have a "limited carrying capacity." Since neither news organizations,members of Congress, nor the public can devote equal amounts of resources and attention to all issues, the rise in attention to one issue on the news agenda, is likely to bump down in prominence another issue across other agendas.
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All of this means that the growing attention to climate change (2006 is on track for a historic level of media attention), and the rising attention to stem cell research (with a Senate vote scheduled for next week,) are both likely to be muted by the agenda dominance of these foreign policy issues. We tend to think of science issues in isolation, but they rely heavily on the level of attention at different times to issues across other sectors of society.
"Carrying capacity." Interesting concept.
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