Does "Objectivity" Belong in Newscasts About Climate Change?
Sangita Iyer
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Posted 02.16.2013
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Canada
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Although climate change seems to be insidiously disrupting our social fabric, it makes the newscast only when there's a dramatic natural disaster. But given the strong consensus between the media and environmental advocates that objectivity doesn't do justice for climate change how can the news media provide effective coverage of climate change?