USA Today Warns Dems: Don’t Try to Stop Climate Change
The real point of the 925-word story, by Gannett Washington reporter Ledyard King, was conveyed in the print edition’s subhead: “Policies Could Carry Risk for Leaders of New House.”
Don’t Do Anything About Climate Disaster, USA Today Warns Dems
USA Today insists, without offering evidence, that Democrats’ efforts to forge climate policy had an important role in the rise of the Tea Party and Republicans’ victory in the 2010 midterm elections.
‘The Administration’s Refusal to Consider the Reality of Climate Change Is Very Difficult’
“We’re not just talking about any oil. We’re talking about tar sands oil, that is in many cases strip-mined from the Earth, and one of the most carbon-intensive fuels on the planet.”
Minimal Media Attention Helped Sink Crucial Climate Initiatives
Climate change took a backseat to other issues in this year’s midterm elections, and humanity may end up paying the price. The majority of climate change-related ballot measures failed, many climate deniers in the Republican party won or kept their seats, and even Democratic winners were not pressed on their commitment to climate change legislation […]
Ari Berman on the State of Voting 2018, Jackie Prange on Keystone XL Re-Review
There’s hardly a time more important than elections for media to stop splitting the difference and frankly describe the impact of elections—not just the outcomes, but the processes—on people and their ability to have a say in their circumstances.
Action Alert: USA Today Says Climate Apocalypse Promises a Balmy Winter
Please tell USA Today to mention climate change prominently when it reports on signs of record-breaking winter warming.
‘These Worst-Case Projections Keep Getting Upgraded’
“…these worst-case projections, unfortunately, keep being upgraded every time more and more reports, like the one we’re discussing today, are being released.”
Focus on Pruitt’s Scandals Obscures Environmental Degradation Under Trump
The media’s focus on Scott Pruitt’s dizzying array of personal scandals obscures his absolute contempt for his agency’s stated mission: environmental protection.
‘We Are Talking Billions of People Displaced by Sea Level Rise’
“Pretending, ‘Oh, it’s not that bad,’ or ‘We’re still going to be able to mitigate it to the point where we’re not going to have to relocate much of New York City,’ for example, it’s just not honest coverage.”
Joe Emersberger on Venezuelan Elections, Dahr Jamail on Antarctic Ice
The United States secretly pressured a Venezuelan opposition candidate not to run, so that the election can be discredited as having no viable opposition candidate.
‘We Do Not Want That to Be Our Legacy’
“It’s saying that it’s OK to continue business as usual, when we know that our planet is in climate chaos because of anthropogenic causes, human-induced causes, of messing with our Earth systems and our Earth cycles.”
Special Episode on Climate Disruption
Climate disruption—and corporate media’s compromised and inadequate response: a special archival CounterSpin show.
USA Today Ignores Climate Change as Factor in Alaskan Drilling
Please tell USA Today to mention climate change prominently when writing about energy issues.
‘Wealthy Countries Have Damaged the Climate in Incredible Ways’
“The US, more than any other country in the history of the world, is most responsible for causing the climate crisis…. We sort of broke the climate, we’re responsible for paying for it.”
William Hartung on Nuclear Overkill, Karen Orenstein on Climate Disconnect
While we’re talking about the dangers of Trump having his hand on the nuclear button, we should also be asking why we maintain a world-ending arsenal at all.
Coverage Skirts Hurricane’s Outsized Impact on Poor
Poorer residents tend to be concentrated in areas more prone to flooding
‘Climate Change Is Making These Facilities Even More Dangerous’
“These are communities living in some of the worst air conditions in the country, because of all of these facilities, and then during storms, they get hit with an extra load of toxins. And that’s just not fair; these communities shouldn’t be having to live with this toxic burden.”
Fossil Fuel Lobbyist by Day, WaPo Columnist by Night
Ed Rogers’ boilerplate Republican talking points could be better written by any number of Heritage fellows, and he is an actual paid lobbyist for an assortment of sleazy industry interests, via his lobbying firm BGR Group. So why does a major paper feel the need to continue to give him column inches?
Why the Revolution Will Not (but Must) Be Televised
Corporate media are really designed around preserving the status quo—unsurprisingly, because they are owned by the class of people who benefit from things staying the same.
Talking About a Revolution
The gaps between the status quo and our survival are why we need a new media system. You will not learn from corporate media how much danger their advertisers are putting us in, or what we can do to stop them.
