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On August 9, the day that the alarming new report from the U.N.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was released, big corporate TV
news outlets spent over two hours in total covering the story.
Just two days later, climate emergency coverage fell to just five
minutes total across all broadcast TV stations and all three cable news
channels combined.
FIVE MINUTES. Are you serious?
This is journalistic malpractice.
To make the big, systemic changes we need to make to solve the climate
crisis, we need news media that will sound the alarm every day and
inspire the actions we need to talk to stop this catastrophe.
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Scientists are screaming at the tops of their lungs, but the
profit-hungry corporate media treats the climate emergency as an
afterthought.
To the extent that corporate media does acknowledge the severity of the
crisis, it is crystal-clear that the cable networks and large newspapers
are too beholden to the status quo to acknowledge the kind of bold
actions that humanity must take now to address the crisis.
Industry-funded climate denialism has evolved into a sinister do-nothing
complacency and open antagonism toward the Green New Deal and the
people-powered climate movement demanding an end to the fossil fuel
economy.
That's why, years from now, when historians look back on this tragic era
of inaction, one of the major culprits will have been the corporate
media.
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