Maybe Someone Should Make a Documentary About Documentarians and the Press? - NYTimes.com

Diane Weyermann, an executive vice president of Participant Media, which backs avowedly activist films, shortly afterward described “a whole lot of press” as having helped sell the message behind movies like “Food, Inc.,” an expose of the food industry, and “An Inconvenient Truth,” the global warming film backed by Participant.

Here’s the problem: Activist documentarians, by and large, shoot films that are calculated to enforce a point of view. Journalists, if they’re doing their job right, are skeptics who are always supposed to question the behavior, motives and validity of their subjects, including that of well-meaning documentarians who might overreach in the service of what they believe to be a good cause.

It was a little unnerving to see the press described, in effect, as an arm of the advocacy business.

Potato farms hit by frost and floods - Times LIVE

As a result of a history of poor harvests, chip maker Simba has adopted an "agricultural turnaround plan" which involves growing potatoes in frost-free areas and increasing storage capacity.

Temperatures breaking records | Tulsa World

51: Tied record low for a Sept. 9, set in 1943
49: Record low for a Sept. 7, previously 50 set in 1918
48: Record low for a Sept. 6, previously 52 set in 1974

More Gore Hot Air - Investors.com

Science: Al Gore's Current TV will use 24 straight hours of airtime this week to try to convert global warming skeptics. Will he mention a recent report that shows the climate change scare is grossly overblown?