Mainstream Media Failure: Earth Day Edition
Three Stories Not Told: Earth Day Edition
Over the past year, Media Matters has documented the deterioration of media coverage on a range of environmental issues, including declining coverage of climate change, unbalanced coverage of the Keystone XL pipeline, the perpetuation of falsehoods about EPA clean air rules, disproportionate and misleading coverage of Solyndra and the denigration of clean energy. Meanwhile, the mainstream press has overlooked some of the most important environmental challenges we face. In honor of Earth Day, Media Matters has compiled three major environmental stories the media missed this year:
1. Garbage In The Ocean Is Accumulating Rapidly.
2. At Least 46 Oil Spills Have Occurred In The U.S. Since The BP Disaster.
3. Gulf Of Mexico Contains A "Dead Zone" -- Devoid Of Life -- The Size Of New Jersey.
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