Talking Heads Not Talking Climate

[stephanie]

So..their saying here the media is no longer for reporting just the news, there now supposed to be used for propaganda..like we didn't already see this happening...

By Andrew C. Revkin

The League of Conservation Voters generated quite a bit of buzz on environmental blogs this week after it launched a new campaign pressing America’s most-watched political reporters to bring up global warming more often on all those influential Sunday talk shows. The group reviewed videotape of more than 120 interviews of presidential contenders by Chris Wallace, Tim Russert, George Stephanopoulos, Wolf Blitzer and Bob Schieffer this year.
In the 2,275 questions posed, the phrases “climate change” or “global warming” were used three times, and a total of 24 questions indirectly touched on climate or related issues, the group said. A video version of their findings is here:

There’s more below on the broader question of what the media can, and can’t, do to galvanize a response to the interwoven issues of climate and energy.
Here’s the League’s count of 2007 talk-show questions mentioning climate:
- Wolf Blitzer, CNN: 1 out of 311
- Tim Russert, NBC: 0 out of 664
- Bob Scheiffer, CBS: 0 out of 212
- George Stephanopoulos, ABC: 0 out of 661
- Chris Wallace, FOX: 2 out of 427

SNIP:
Many commentators have called on the media to lead the public toward action. Some outlets, like Time Magazine, (and The Times editorial page and columnists like Tom Friedman) have taken on an advocacy role.

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