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Why won’t TV news say ‘climate change’?
The climate emergency is exploding in various parts of the world this week, but climate silence inexcusably continues to reign in much of the United States media. Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana without running water, electricity, or air conditioning amid a heat index topping 100F. The Caldor fire destroyed...
MSNBC public editor: this PR release shows you’re an afterthought
The obsessive focus on ratings, in all aspects of television news—production, casting, media reporting, criticism and analysis, and in the corridors of power where decisions regarding coverage are made—still relies on the viewing habits of the 40,000 fabled “Nielsen households.” These are homes paid in the neighborhood of a few hundred dollars per year to...
Q&A: Gina Masullo on local news, conservative audiences, and trust
Last year, the Pew Research Center examined partisan trust, and distrust, of a range of news media outlets, finding in part that Republicans placed “lower trust in a variety of measured news sources” than Democrats. Recently, the Center for Media Engagement, in partnership with Trusting News, surveyed more than three thousand local news readers who...
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