Media Blog (Archive)

  • Pressing The Associated Press

    I must first say I have been pleased with the state of reporting on seafood lately. Not because I agree with it all but because when charged with reporting the facts, free of surreptitious agendas, the media has been doing a pretty god job lately.
    Published: 01/30/2009 - 13:02     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Uninformed, spoon-fed, environmental activist rhetoric becomes the Ventura County Star’s Opinion

    No the Ventura County Star isn't the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal-but it still has standards... or should. Take for instance its latest unsigned editorial.  The 600+ word opinion piece takes an embarrassingly uneducated shot at canned tuna with the tact of a newly minted 16-year old environmental activist armed with a few quasi facts, a sandwich board and a bull horn.
    Published: 01/28/2009 - 16:55     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Extremists in Action (Part II)

    It wasn't two weeks ago that I was scolding the Economist for a seafood sustainability story that relied on erroneous environmental activist data (not my opinion, mind you, just a fact.) But this week we (and by we I mean Stetson Tinkham, NFI's director of International Affairs and I - avid Economist readers) find the Economist squaring off against activists who have once again gone too far.
    Published: 01/28/2009 - 10:22     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Hawthorne’s Mercury Mania Continues

    Let me start by saying, while I am sure he wishes it did, Michael Hawthorne's latest article on mercury has nothing to do with fish... or seafood... or even water for that matter. It has to do with corn and a study that apparently says researchers detected traces of mercury in samples of high-fructose corn syrup.
    Published: 01/27/2009 - 17:01     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Piven In A Pickle (II)

    A day after the FDA released an exhaustive, peer-reviewed, draft report analyzing the state of seafood science over the past 5 years that demonstrates just how much the benefits of eating seafood outweigh any concerns about trace amounts of mercury, you might wonder why I am blogging about Jeremy Piven. There is a tie-in, trust me.
    Published: 01/16/2009 - 14:58     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Good Morning Mr. Piven

    Actor Jeremy Piven is in full damage control mode. Ever since his wacky mercury poisoning "diagnosis" and subsequent flight from Broadway he's been laying low-recuperating... except when there are award shows and parties to attend.
    Published: 01/13/2009 - 16:56     Comments: 0     Read More

  • Facing the Facts on Sustainability

    Perhaps The Economist isn't a paper you read regularly... at the risk of having a Sara Palin / Katie Couric moment I'll admit I've let my Economist subscription laps.
    Published: 01/12/2009 - 13:54     Comments: 0     Read More