Major news outlets are handing the mic to big business on climate issues
Newspapers and other media outlets haven't given equal coverage to scientists and big businesses when it comes to climate change. (Roman Kraft/Unsplash/)It may seem that the days of false equivalency in climate change journalism are behind us. It’s rare to see a climate change denier or skeptic framed as an “expert” in an article. And that’s for good reason—their opinions run counter to the overwhelming weight of evidence that climate change is real, happening right now, caused by human activities, and that urgent action is needed to avert its worst consequences.But a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the media still disproportionately amplifies the views of businesses and coalitions pushing back on climate action. So while major publications may not necessarily be sowing doubt on climate change, they are still allowing a few powerful and wealthy groups to define the debate on how to...