The crisis outside our window
For too long, American journalism has downplayed the climate crisis. Four years ago, to mark the launch of a new initiative aimed at addressing the problem,
Mark Hertsgaard and I wrote a piece lamenting how reporters, particularly in the US, tended to minimize climate science, foreground political squabbling, and ignore the effects of a burning planet on the people most at risk—that did not reflect well on our profession.
#Journalism
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/climate_crisis_media_heat_southwest.php
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