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This week on CounterSpin: As Americans celebrate a fairy tale about the relationship between Native Americans and settlers, actual Native Americans are mourning the pollution of more of their land, and lives, by fossil fuels. The November 16 spill of more than 200,000 gallons of oil from the Keystone pipeline occurred adjacent to the South Dakota reservation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe. The inevitability of such spills is, of course, only one of many reasons millions of people resist pipelines.
Riot police confront demonstrators over the Dakota Access Pipeline. (image: The Intercept, 10/25/16)
Last August, CounterSpin heard from Kandi Mossett, Native energy and climate campaign organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network, about the peaceful protest against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. We revisit that conversation this week.
Climate disruption is many stories—not just big messes like oil spills, but some maybe subtler but no less meaningful impacts, like birds disappearing from your backyard. We talked about some of the less-discussed changes last summer with environmental writer Dan Zukowski. We’ll hear some of that too.
(cc photo: South Bend Voice)
There’s no scientific controversy that we have to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The fight is political. InsideClimate News reporter Marianne Lavelle spoke with us early in the Trump administration about how the White House’s plans are setting us back.
And finally, why, in 2017, do corporate media insist on making ideological room for climate change denialists and go-slowers, even as working journalists report the utterly undeniable? We spoke with FAIR’s own editor Jim Naureckas about that.
Climate disruption—and corporate media’s compromised and inadequate response, this week on Counterspin.
Transcript: ‘We Do Not Want That to Be Our Legacy’
It is very sad when the American government can say “eminent domai “and take the property of an American citizen… WATER is LIFE but corporations seem to be DEATH. —–HOW and WHY is it legal for a foreign corporation from Canada to do the same thing ?
If the Fairness Doctrine was still in effect I do not believe the issues about climate change/disruption would be the near as serious. In 2001 I noticed that news and information regarding serious political, environmental issues important to the public interest was no longer reported or discussed in a open public televised forum during primetime hours. It would be important that the medium used would be solely televised (transmitted over the airwaves only) during primetime hours specifically at the morning, noon, 6:00 news and late nite broadcasts and that no requirement to broadcast post to the internet. The internet is a unregulated media meant to be used for advertising and entertainment and not much else because there is no real online security and protection from unscrupulous advertisers. The internet should be used for marketing, competition and business. The repeal of the fairness doctrine has proven to be the reason the public no longer knows what’s happening here and around the world. The Fairness Doctrine was intended to provide information and protect the public interest. Business, marketing, profit making and capitalism have no place interfering with public interest. This is the main reason we the people have lost our First Amendment protections. I for one do not remember any public awareness concerning the Fairness Doctrine back in the eighties. But I have noticed all media is under the control of powerful corporate interests and they also control EVERYTHING we hear and see either online or televised because it is now considered “entertainment” therefore accuracy and truth are not considered. This doctrine is probably the most important issue in the United States today bar none. Capitalism should be much more regulated by law it is the greatest threat to our democracy. A free market MUST be regulated to protect consumers. All things can not be capitalised upon just for the sake of profit The fairness Doctrine should be reinstated NOW. We must inform the public. Businesses or corporations do not have rights. The individual have the only rights of protection under this doctrine and the Constitution.
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Thanks for putting these reports together and highlighting climate change.