What role has the media played in the climate crisis?
For decades, around the world, climate change coverage has been thin. Guests discuss why the media in petrol states, in particular, have struggled to tell that story.
For decades, around the world, climate change coverage has been thin. Guests discuss why the media in petrol states, in particular, have struggled to tell that story. Science illiteracy in newsrooms has led to a mixture of climate silence and false balance in print and on air. But, even when the science has not been contested, the way the crisis has been reported may have caused audiences to turn away. Can climate coverage learn lessons from how that other hugely consequential science story of our time 鈥� the pandemic - has been told?
Contributors :
Mark Herstsgaard, co-founder Covering Climate Now
Marianna Poberezhskaya, associate professor Nottingham Trent University
Kris De Meyer, neuroscientist Kings College London
Wolfgang Blau, The Reuters Institute
Presenter: Graihagh Jackson
Producer: Rosamund Jones
Editor: Emma Rippon
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- Mon 20 Sep 2021 01:32GMT主播大秀 World Service
- Mon 20 Sep 2021 08:06GMT主播大秀 World Service
- Mon 20 Sep 2021 12:32GMT主播大秀 World Service East and Southern Africa, South Asia, West and Central Africa & East Asia only
- Mon 20 Sep 2021 19:06GMT主播大秀 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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