Is It in My Head?

mediamattersforamerica:
“ Some facts about climate change, since the media is yawning at the President’s climate proposals today:
1. Courts have ordered the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses. http://mm4a.org/14pzyjG
2. The “war on coal” story going...

Some facts about climate change, since the media is yawning at the President’s climate proposals today:
1. Courts have ordered the EPA to regulate greenhouse gasses. http://mm4a.org/14pzyjG

2. The “war on coal” story going around today is missing a lot of context: http://mm4a.org/1aKwd3N

3. 97% of climate papers published agree that human activity is causing climate change. That’s called scientific consensus.http://mm4a.org/11EyBWj

4. How are the media covering all of this? They bailed. In a stunning act of ignorance, Megyn Kelly cut directly from President Obama to a climate change denier and said that the President was wrong that the planet is warming. Other cable networks cut away shortly thereafter (though, thankfully not as crassly).

Fed up?

she looks as good in a pansuit as Hillz Do you recognize this woman? You do if you’re a news junkie. She tells you things in an effort to try and massage all of the bad things you know about fracking, things like false hope for well paying jobs for all out of your brain. You see her on every cable news channel. And I bet that the API pays not a handsome but a gorgeous sum for the slots. It’s revenues the cable channels and carriers must drool over.

I suspect that the advertising revenue suppresses the content about climate change and how destructive and disruptive fracking is on the cable channels; not just news, but also any channel that alleges to discuss science. This hypothesis isn’t perfect: I don’t see Gassy Pantsuit Lady pitching her utopia on a Discovery Network channel; but someone did squeeze Discovery Network to keep compelling content off of Planet Green…thus it’s bad ratings and subsequent death.

Still, I’d like to challenge Phil Griffin and Jeff Zucker to prove that advertisers aren’t directing or suppressing content. You should, too, if you care about climate change and clean drinking water.