Nature to newsroom: "Get Me Rewrite!"
Tags: climate change, fairness and accuracy, Fox News, global warming, media watchdog, New York Times, Ross Gelbspan, US, Wall Street Journal
Even diligent readers of the best U.S. newspapers will be left with a less than overwhelming feeling about the dire consequences that may result from global warming, and the firm scientific conclusion that humans have caused warming, according to an analysis in Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, the media watchdog group.
Counterparts in Britain and elsewhere around the world were much more likely to print headlines and stories that framed global warming as a crisis that must be dealt with quickly to avert disaster.
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I am a regular reader of your article. And I am very impress with your blog upon Global Warming. Now I am also write a blog upon effects and causes of Global Warming. This blog is collection of news & reviews like the study found that global warming since 1985 has been caused neither by an increase in solar radiation nor by a decrease in the flux of galactic cosmic rays. Some researchers had also suggested that the latter might influence global warming because the rays trigger cloud formation.
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The results and conclusions will most likely be similar, but it'd be interesting nonetheless to see the same methodology applied to TV newscasts. Fewer and fewer are reading print media of course. One tends to assume that this under-reporting is even more exagerated in TV-land.
Today's floods in India and Bangladesh are reported online by BBC and CNN in ways that illustrate the different news styles and priorities on either side of the pond. I have linked to video clips and tried to jot down (http://inel.wordpress.com/2007/08/02/uk-versus-us-tv-coverage-of-climate-change-india-floods/) my anecdotal view of non-political TV news reports from both sides of the Atlantic, based on this example topic, but this is by no means the full story. As soon as a story becomes politicized, as climate change often does in America (less so in Britain), the contrast is even starker. I agree with you that it would be interesting to hear from professionals who study climate change coverage on TV!
US needs "bridge-collapse" to act on climate-change
Based on what's been happening over the last 10 years I think the answer is unfortunately "yes" - the US needs a "bridge-collapse" to act on climate-change.
Why the US needs something like that is a more difficult question.
http://npat.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/03/875421-us-needs-bridge-collapse-to-act-on-climate-change