Yes, and it’s worse than that. As @amywestervelt reports in the Drilled podcast, the fossil fuel industries’ PR invention of the “advertisement op ed” in esteemed outlets like the NYT, changed public opinion AND— as they gleefully bragged — how JOURNALISTS COVER CLIMATE. @jswatzhttps://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1187402451344904192 …
The point I was trying to make is not that the Times was/is afraid of angering big advertisers. It is much more insidious than that. Much more about framing. See this thread by @AlexSteffen
https://twitter.com/alexsteffen/status/1018861315237076992?s=21 …
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I think it is unlikely conversations like this happened, “We’re killing the piece. Exxon just dropped $1M in advertising.” Instead, the very framing by journalists of how we understand climate change and solutions is a product of the Carbon Lobby. See:https://twitter.com/alexsteffen/status/1018861616362917888?s=21 …
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John, do you think the dominant framing in the press (that Alex lays out) of climate from the 1990s until even now (tho that’s changing) has been appropriate? If not, why? My answer: No, it hasn’t. Why? Massive amounts of money spent on disinformation including advertorials.
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