“Our National Debate About Climate Policy Is Broken”

[MindMover]

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A new study just released by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that of the three major cable news networks, in 2013 Fox News far and away was the worst at covering news about climate change: More than 70 percent of their coverage contained misleading statements about it.

Shocking, I know.

Comparatively, CNN’s coverage was misleading 30 percent of the time while MSNBC was the most accurate with “only” 8 percent of its coverage being misleading.

This is not a surprise at all, of course; Fox News has long been known to distort reality when it comes to anything they feel threatens their ideology. What is surprising is that in 2013 their coverage of climate change was actually better than it was in 2012, when a jaw-dropping 93 percent of their statements about it were misleading.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/08/fox_news_leading_cable_news_network_is_usually_wrong_about_climate_change.html


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I think we should have a Climate Change/Renewable Energy news channel ... Climate Change is by far the most important issue in this century ... and should not be reported by the nitwits above ... or are we brave enough to listen to the real news .. ???

[mindwalker_i]

1. Our national "debates" about many things are broken

It seems like there are a lot of big problems that the country faces, but we can even talk about them without running up against a FUD wall, let alone actually try to fix them.