SPOTLIGHT ON MEDIA OUTLETS:
NOTABLE EXAMPLES
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth.
They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
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— Malcolm X, distinguished human rights activist
HOW MASS MEDIA CONTRIBUTES TO CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL
Fox News, American television channel
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Compared to the media of other developed nations, American media has been shown to suggest greater uncertainty about human-caused climate change to its audience.
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Conservative news sites such as Fox News often disseminate information that 'manufacture uncertainty' over human-caused climate change.
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Fox News is known to have a moderate to strong bias to conservative politics in the United States.
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In the videos above, we get a glimpse into how Fox curates its news to create doubt in the integrity of climate change community, through:​
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Emphasising on the mistakes made by the pro-climate community
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Using emotionally-charged headlines ("Gore gets slammed over false global warming prediction")
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Rupert Murdoch and News Corp (which owns Wall Street Journal)
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Media institutions, such as news corporations, are known to have political leanings.​
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The news articles from these outlets often echo the political stance they support. ​
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is the founder​ and chairman of News Corp, which owns broadly-circulated newspapers including The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and U.K.'s newspapers, The Times and The Sun.
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​These newspapers are known to be biased towards conservative politics.
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WSJ has a section dedicated to ​'The Price of Climate', which compiles articles which shed doubt on climate science and emphasise the benefits climate change has brought about.
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