At MondayNote, Frederic Filloux writes The Hazards of Covering Climate Change. Without taking sides he describes why media coverage of global warming/climate change is so incompetent. Excerpts in italics with my bolds.
Zeal, political agendas, all kinds of excesses, but above all the intrinsic complexity of the issue, make the climate crisis extremely challenging to cover. Newsrooms should tackle the problem decisively.
Spending a few weeks in California this summer, I talked to many fellow journalists about the issue of covering the climate crisis. What I found is a yawning gap in the way it is approached.
In broad strokes, the coverage of climate change in Europe — especially in France — is loaded with negativism and finger-pointing while the US conversation seems more focused on finding broad, tech-driven, solutions. Neither is exempt from caricatures.
European ecology yields a political agenda which questions the relevance of the free…
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