mainstream media

TIME magazine devoted an entire issue to climate change AGAIN

And it's actually kind of ... hopeful?

The royal baby is cute and all, but hello, the planet is on fire

ABC News gave more time to baby Archie in one week than to climate crisis in one year

Meet the Press just modeled what it looks like to take climate change seriously

On Sunday, the show did what no other weekend news program had ever done before: They discussed climate change for a full hour.

Cable news ignored people of color when covering Trump’s Paris exit

Nearly 300 news guests discussed the topic. 83 percent were white.

Why anti-nuclear enviros just aren’t the same as climate deniers

A New York Times columnist says that if you don't want to build new nuclear plants, you're as big a problem as climate science deniers. He is wrong.

Study: News coverage of Keystone XL slanted toward pipeline proponents

During the debate so far over Keystone XL, the media have favored pipeline proponents, according to a new study from Media Matters. Broadcast, cable, and print news stories all featured more people who supported the pipeline than who opposed it. Of guests on broadcast outlets, 79 percent supported Keystone XL; only 7 percent opposed it.

Eco-shocking the airwaves

For his podcast, Radio Ecoshock, Alex Smith interviews mostly off-the-radar authors, scientists, and activists about the climate crisis.

Why brown spin keeps beating green spin

Spin it, baby, spin it.Photo: Sinan CeylanOne of the perennial complaints of the green community is that the Beltway — the ecosystem of politicians, staffers, lobbyists, NGOs, and media that influence federal policy in D.C. — is dominated by what I guess you’d call the brown community: fossil-fuel lobbyists, conservative think tanks, and politicians who, […]

A case study in how media bias works against clean-air rules

Political reporter John Broder had a long piece in The New York Times yesterday chronicling Obama’s decision to delay a tighter national smog standard. I have no desire to relitigate that fight, but I do want to pluck out one particular bit of Broder’s piece to illustrate a point. In a recent piece kvetching about […]