What it would be like if equal broadcast time was given to realm of science...

[ChisolmTrailDem]

...as is given politics? The 24/7 Mainstream Propaganda Network outlets are nearly singularly focused on politics and rarely venture into other areas, like science news, much less make it their primary focus.

I know, I know...science news doesn't offer the opportunities for drama and sensation that politics does. But science as a primary focus of the media damn sure wouldn't lead to the sort of societal polarization or breed the animosity and hatred that politics does. Or, would it?

[hollysmom]

1. just after sputnik in the 50;s there seemed to be a spate of prime time

science coverage - I specifically remember (and this as a small child) a cartoon for an hour that was explaining the theory of relativity. I don't know if people are sheltered from seeing where we are going, or religiously deranged or if power that be corporations are discouraging it. Or maybe TV is all about profit and not about any service.
Heck I remember when News was considered a non-profit service and news specials were for prestige alone. Samn that Reagan once the fairness act was gone, it all went to shit, or maybe it was the invention of non-network TV, what ever.

[haikugal]

2. Is it just me or didn't all things science rule in the near past?

Then we began to see the denigration of science, the questioning, the dietary issues etc. and it became a frequent lament that 'they change their minds weekly'...who cares?!

Then they challenged the climate science and NASA and the corporations bought scientists to green wash the data etc.

Science is under attack in my view...thinking and education are denigrated.

The 'news' is propaganda and entertainment which has nothing to do with informing people. It would be very different if science reporting were part of the daily news...but only if it were honest and unadulterated, with an eye to informing.

[shenmue]

3. Yeah

There needs to be more education on science, not just for kids, but for adults. We have way too much climate change denial, creationism in school, and all this other crap going around.

[Hugin]

4. But... But... All that sciency stuff and facts are all librul biased!

Even TEH MATHS!

[jwirr]

5. I would agree except I don't think the people who

disagree with science are going to listen to it anyhow. It goes against their religious rights to listen to truth.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. So, would the divisions would then be between those who countenance science and those who...

...do not, rather than the political ideology-driven divisions we have now? Perhaps reminiscent of the time when Galileo was persecuted for his discovery of Jupiter's moons and the phases of Venus?

Reading this back to myself, these are obviously rhetorical questions.

[jwirr]

12. I don't know what the outcome would be but it would

be great to get scientific facts out of the realm of politics. Facts are not arguable.

[WillowTree]

6. Do you think there would be a big market for such programming?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

9. I do. nt

[WillowTree]

13. I think if there was, there would already be more programming of that nature.

Media is business.......run by business people.......who are interested in profits. If there was a more significant market for scientific shows, they'd be showing more and collecting the significant ad dollars that it would generate.

[WinkyDink]

7. You don't think there are science-oriented shows/channels?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. Not with the demographics that political "news" channels have. nt

[lunatica]

11. Sure there are

but if the news media had a daily segment on science, especially climate change science people who have very little time to research it for themselves would be interested. All it has to be is science as it affects and could affect our lives on a daily basis, not an ad on the latest social media gadget.

And just like kids take to social media gadgetry they will take to climate change science. After they watch they can then turn around and explain it to us adults.

[NuclearDem]

14. There used to be.

The Smithsonian Channel is the only TV station worth a damn when it comes to covering either the social or physical sciences.

The only science-based (and I use the term loosely) TV event that gets any real tradition is Shark Week.

[Snobblevitch]

15. The cable system in our town has

a NASA channel and a scoence channel.