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The Dead And Those About To Die - Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
http://www.medialens.org/2020/the-dead-and-those-about-to-die-climate-protests-and-the-corporate-mediaDate Written: 2020-11-17 Publisher: Media Lens Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24751 On the climate protest demonstration on Remembrance Day, 2020. Abstract: - Excerpt Moreover, a truly 'mainstream' media - pursuing genuine public-interest journalism - would be exposing the utter failure of successive governments to seriously address climate breakdown. The media would hail as heroes those climate activists who are protesting peacefully to draw attention to the very real risk of climate catastrophe, global mass loss of species and of human extinction itself. Instead, the level of media debate is often shockingly poor. On ITV's 'This Morning' last Thursday, the right-wing Andrew Neil, until recently masquerading as an 'impartial' BBC politics presenter, lambasted the Extinction Rebellion, dismissing the warning that climate change will lead to wars. 'There's no evidence of that', he declared. Subject Headings |