Dear Liliana et al,
I was about to recommend the Boykoff piece, as i'd heard an item
on the radio about it. As this piece itself has gotten quite a
bit of media (and blog) coverage, it might be a fun exercise for
students to explore how it's been reported. also, I'd recommend
looking into reviews of the latest michael Crichton novel - the New
Yorker had an interesting short piece on it recently, and the NYT
reviewed it too.
Also see
Allan, Stuart, Barbara Adam,
et al., Eds. (2000). Environmental Risks and the Media. London,
Routledge.
Chapman, Graham, Kevel Kumar,
et al. (1997). Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North-South
Divide. London, Routledge.
Smith, Joe, Ed. (2000).
The Daily Globe: Environmental change, the public and the media.
London, Earthscan.
Ungar, Sheldon (1998).
"Bringing the Issue Back In: Comparing the Marketability of the
Ozone Hole and Global Warming." Social Problems 45(4):
510-527.
best,
Kate
At 12:39 AM -0800 1/14/05, Wil Burns wrote:
Liliana,
This is also a very good piece. Wil
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Global Environmental Change 14 (2004) 125-136
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press,
Maxwell T. Boykoffa,*, Jules M. Boykoffb
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that US prestige-press coverage of global warming
from 1988 to 2002 has contributed to a significant divergence of popular
discourse from scientific discourse. This failed discursive translation
results from an accumulation of tactical media responses and practices
guided by widely accepted journalistic norms. Through content analysis of US
prestige press- meaning the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los
Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal-this paper focuses on the norm of
balanced reporting, and shows that the prestige press's adherence to balance
actually leads to biased coverage of both
anthropogenic contributions to global warming and resultant action.
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Subject: climate change and the media
Dear colleagues,
I am designing a course on climate change politics, and would like to
incorporate a class on the role of the media and public opinion. Could you
recommend good articles and/or interesting/effective/controversial media
productions? Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Liliana
Liliana Andonova
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Government
Department of Government
Colby College
4000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901
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