Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts

['.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow', 'Class', 'Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus', 'Display Inline', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar', 'Where Img', 'Height Auto Max-Width', 'Vertical-Align Bottom .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar', 'Vertical-Align Middle .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar Is .Alignleft .Alignright', 'Display Table .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar.Aligncenter Display Table Margin-Inline Auto'] CounterSpin 2024-03-22 16:17:13

1 is “follow the money.” Yet even as elite media talk about the climate crisis they still…can’t… quite…connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies. We’ll talk about the latest research on climate coverage with Evlondo Cooper, senior writer at Media Matters. For a while, it was mainly about “fear and favor”—the ways corporate owners and sponsors influence the content of coverage. Rick Goldsmith’s new film is called Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink. Transcript: ‘This Decline in Local Journalism Was Noticed First by Journalists Themselves’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent coverage of Israel’s flour massacre.