Posted by Kebz
on November 4, 2009, 9:01 am, in reply to "And by the way, George..."
That is utter rubbish. The vast majority of articles in the corporate media accept climate change as a fact. You should really do your research before you make such statements. You can hardly compare this to the way the media demonise official enemies or promote imperial wars. The Guardian for example actually has a complete section dedicated to climate change.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climate-change
Search the Independent and you will find that the vast majority of articles carried favour the climate change camp.
http://www.independent.co.uk/search/index.jsp?eceExpr=climate+change
http://www.independent.co.uk/search/index.jsp?eceExpr=climate+change
http://www.independent.co.uk/search/index.jsp?eceExpr=climate+change
Similarly even the BBC carry mostly articles that accept climate change as a fact:
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&Search=Search&tab=all&q=climate%20change&start=1&scope=all
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&Search=Search&q=climate%20change&tab=all&scope=all&start=2
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&Search=Search&q=climate%20change&tab=all&scope=all&start=3
The newsreader Peter Sissons has even accused the BBC of stifling the views of climate change sceptics.
Even in right wing rags like The Mail, the majority of articles support climate change.
I'm not a denier, a sceptic, nor a dedicated pro-climate change activist but with this accusation, you are completely off the mark. How can Monbiot accuse the media, if the overwhelming coverage actually favours climate change? Do right wing bloggers outweigh the effect of the coverage? There is a whole industry now based around climate change consultancy etc. Hardly, a suppression of pro-climate change views by the establishment, is it?
what is going on in George's head?!
: What about the performance of the corporate
: media? That is the dedicated corporate arm
: of the same corporate system wrecking the
: havoc.
:
: It makes no sense at all to discuss this
: problem without discussing the media. And
: yet the word is given a single mention:
:
: "Had he bothered to take a look at the
: quality of the evidence on either side of
: this media debate, and the nature of the
: opposing armies – climate scientists on one
: side, rightwing bloggers on the
: other..."
:
: There is another force on the denialist side
: - much of the global corporate media system
: chock full of adverts and denialist blather.
:
: Eds
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