Website review: How the Media Abandoned the Environ...
envirograffiti discovered this in Environment
•16 reviews since Apr 29, 2008
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envirograffiti discovered 3 months ago- With U.S. gasoline prices edging toward $4.00 a gallon; oil prices at an all-time high, demand for materials such as copper outstripping demand; worldwide food shortages; major cities running short on water; Antarctic ice sheets crumbling into the Southern Ocean; and continued uncertainty over our climatological future, you'd think the environment would be front-and-center on the evening news. And you'd be wrong
- thewordisberry rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are two of the worldâ€s most influential news organizations: their reporting helps set the tone for both print and electronic media. Their editorial abandonment of the environment both reflects and guides the media at large." and "To a degree, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times' disconnect with environmental issues speaks to the decline of traditional mass media. No longer the gatekeepers of public discourse, print and electronic broadcast media are enduring sharp reversals in readership, viewers, and revenues. In response, mass media increasingly relies on the sensational to prop up the exodus of their core consumers. Reporting is now more about conflict and drama than the issues from which they extend. The transformation of news from information to entertainment -- and the corrosive effect of this process on the guilded remnants of traditional news brands -- can be observed..." READ THIS POST. And go change something.
- sonofbruce rated 3 months ago
- EcoTech Daily reports on a new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
- gypsyfair rated 3 months ago
- interesting read
- VersesOverCoffee rated 3 months ago
- "Just 14 months ago, Hollywood rolled up to the Academy Awards in electric cars and hybrid limos to laud An Inconvenient Truth. By summer, it was nonstop coverage of the Live Earth climate concerts. Advertisers were falling all over themselves to slap green stickers on their products, and the media was all but pronouncing the penguin and polar bear extinct. Then came the inevitable blowback from radio talk show hosts, politicians, and indistrialist talking heads. Perhaps, also, the general public -- suffering a green hangover from too much eco-marketing and inflated claims on both sides of the climate change issue. By autumn, the press had moved on to follow presidential hopefuls, not the environment."
- yobaba rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "To a degree, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times' disconnect with environmental issues speaks to the decline of traditional mass media. No longer the gatekeepers of public discourse, print and electronic broadcast media are enduring sharp reversals in readership, viewers, and revenues. In response, mass media increasingly relies on the sensational to prop up the exodus of their core consumers. Reporting is now more about conflict and drama than the issues from which they extend. The transformation of news from information to entertainment - and the corrosive effect of this process on the guilded remnants of traditional news brands - can be observed in the long decline of the once-great CBS News, former home to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. There will be other failures." Click the graph for additional info.
- BobTheJob rated 3 months ago
- The cover of Time Magazine is about the environment about once a month these days...
- preston41 rated 3 months ago
- I see the stats you're quoting, but I also feel NYT and WSJ are doing more. I see tons of green interest stories on NY Times, and I'll even get a pretty good green story from WSJ, too. Plus, NYT has Tom Friedman and Dot Earth -- they're doing some good things right now.
- PlanetThoughts rated 3 months ago
- This is fact-based reporting on the lack of serious public discussion of where we are taking the planet, a topic and reporting that both certainly deserve visibility. Perhaps we are deluding ourselves into thinking that enough is being done, while it appears that in reality, that is NOT the case - and it is also not even being discussed adequately in the news or in other civic venues. From the page: "With U.S. gasoline prices edging toward $4.00 a gallon; oil prices at an all-time high, demand for materials such as copper outstripping demand; worldwide food shortages; major cities running short on water; Antarctic ice sheets crumbling into the Southern Ocean; and continued uncertainty over our climatological future, you'd think the environment would be front-and-center on the evening news. And you'd be wrong. Sure, there's some reporting on spotty gas lines and store chains placing minor restrictions on rice purchases. But the policy failures which are already being felt in the stomachs of the developing world -- and will eventually become obvious elsewhere -- are hardly ever discussed. Nor are the tremendous advances in clean and green technology which will hold such promise for the coming decades."
- AbleReach rated 3 months ago
- Changes in what is getting news coverage - From the page: "Surveying front page stories at the WSJ between 12 August and 12 December, 2007, the Project discovered that five percent of the paper's reporting could be categorized as Science/Technology or the Environment. The study then tracked these issues for a three-month period beginning 13 December - the day Murdoch took control. Coverage declined by over half, to 2.1 percent."
