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Posted on 12/24/2007 9:12:27 PM PST by neverdem
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
“The scientific community has warned that ‘time is running out,’” Gene Karpinski, the president of the League, said in a news release. “It is time for these journalists to focus on the human race, not the horse race.”
This is hardly the first critique of media coverage of climate (and energy). Since 2000, there have been complaints about energy and climate not being touched on in presidential debates. Many visitors to Dot Earth have complained that The New York Times is inadequately covering, or highlighting, the issue (much of our coverage is archived at nytimes.com/climate if you want to explore)...
(Excerpt) Read more at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com ...
It’s not hilarious. It’s indicative of the fact that global warming is not really an issue. Given that these “journalists” could, if they chose to, make any dem candidate look good by tossing them softball question on global warming they haven’t. Why not? It’s not an issue that merits any discussion.
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