mike-ciandella
Antarctic ice trapped a ship full of scientists on a climate change
expedition. Yet, 96 percent of network news reports about the stranded
researchers ignored climate change entirely. The ship has been stuck
since Christmas morning.
The broadcast networks mostly ignored the reason the Russian ship,
Akademic Shokalskiy, was on its way to Antarctica. Twenty-five out of 26
stories (96 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows
since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with
the expedition.
In fact, rather than point out the mission of the scientists to find
evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded
people as “passengers,” “trackers” and even “tourists,” with no mention
of climate change or global warming. Chris Turney, the expedition’s
leader, is a professor of climate change at the University of South Wales. According to Turney’s personal website, the purpose of the expedition is to “discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south.”
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