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 …
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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Do I think it was only the advertorials that caused this? No. These were part of a much larger disinformation campaign that the press has been complicit in. Has there also been stellar reporting on the climate change? Absolutely. Both can be simultaneously true.
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