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Subject Climate crisis is a corporate media “ratings killer”?!
Date August 26, 2021 3:08 PM
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Friend,

In 2018, one of the top hosts on cable news openly admitted why the
corporate media spend so little time covering the climate emergency.

Climate change, he said, is a "palpable ratings killer."

Since then, the corporate media's coverage of the climate emergency—even
as global temperatures have gone up—has actually gone down .

The planet is on fire, and the corporate media ignores it because it's
in their financial interests to do so. Their business model is based on
ratings and clicks, and then they sell advertising to the very fossil
fuel companies that have brought our climate near the brink of collapse.

As an independent newsroom funded by you, our readers, Common Dreams
covers the climate crisis every day, delivering context and perspective
on the latest science, lifting up the voices of those most impacted, and
calling out the fossil fuel industry for causing the catastrophe and
blocking solutions.

Our climate coverage doesn't rest on ratings, it rests on readers like
you. Will you make a donation today to support our coverage of the
climate emergency?

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The recent dire warning from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change grabbed corporate media headlines for one day.

Common Dreams will never let the urgency of tackling the climate crisis
recede to the back pages.

Day in and day out, we cover the policies world governments are
enacting—or avoiding—to help stem the pollution spewing into the
atmosphere and our oceans. We cover the communities around the world
whose lives will be upended if we don't act. And we feature leading
progressives who won't settle for half measures.

Common Dreams doesn't depend on ratings to deliver hard-hitting news
about the climate crisis. But we do rely on individual donations, which
have dropped sharply in the post-Trump era.

The corporate media isn't built to cover the climate crisis, but Common
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Andrea Germanos

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