"Al Gore ripped U.S. television coverage of climate change Friday, alleging the media is cowering before industry-funded global warming 'deniers.'"
"'Here in the U.S., the news media has been intimidated, frightened, and not only frightened, they are vulnerable to distorted news judgments because the line separating news and entertainment has long since been crossed, and ratings have a big influence on the selection of stories that are put on the news,' Gore said in remarks at the Brookings Institution.
'And the deniers of the climate crisis, quite a few of them paid by the large fossil fuel polluters — really it is like a family with an alcoholic father who flies into a rage if anyone mentions alcohol, and so the rest of the family decides to keep the peace by never mentioning the elephant in the room. And many in the news media are exactly in that position,' the former vice president said."
Ben Geman reports for The Hill's E2 Wire September 27, 2013.
SEE ALSO:
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"To Tell a Complicated Climate Science Story: Simplify, Shorten, List" (Columbia Journalism Review)
"Wall Street Journal Fails To Notice We’Ve Seen the Hottest Decade Ever" (Climate Science Watch)
"Opinion: Tracking Global Warming Trends? Think Like a Stockbroker" (Daily Climate)
"UN IPCC Climate Change Report Coverage Gets a Pasting From Climate Science Coalition" (Investigate Daily)
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"Al Jazeera Provides Best-In-Class TV Coverage Of IPCC Climate Report" (Climate Progress)
"Environmentalists Deliver 42,000-Signature Petition For Better Climate Coverage To CNBC Headquarters" (Media Matters)
"The Numbers Game: Communicating Climate Change by the Numbers" (Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media)
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