CMNS 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Basic Belief, Enmeshment, Churnalism
6 Jun 2016
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Bigger newspapers may really be better newspapers in terms of newspaper coverage of the environment. Environmental reporters believed they needed additional training and more than a third felt that environmental journalists generally were not well enough educated to cover news about environmental issues. Scientists and industry leaders believe the concept of scientific degree of risk is central to environmental news reporting. Environmental reporters generally understood and paid attention to the concept of risk. Did not accept the industry argument that environmental issues became problems only when they posed a provable human health risk. The environmental beat had become as much about the politics behind the issues as about the underlying science. First half of 20th century, environmental press releases often came from business interests, explaining their solutions to issues of public concern. Government officials dominated the environmental discussion and played a major role in setting the environmental agenda.
