I am not a bear expert. I don’t even play one on TV.
Better yet, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I make no representations that I can refute anything factual about California Grizzly Bears.
But I do know something about narrative building, and this story from the Washington Post is an excellent example of how one does it.
Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story.
“Pretty much everything that I thought I knew about these animals turned out to be wrong,” one scientist said after studying California grizzly bears. https://t.co/3xvEpb4JWf
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 25, 2024
The story purports to be about the new discoveries that scientists have made in their research on the California Grizzly Bear. It is, in other words, a piece that is supposedly grounded in science, expanding our knowledge about a vaguely…
