{"id":72681,"date":"2016-05-02T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=72681"},"modified":"2016-04-27T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T11:29:50","slug":"youre-more-likely-to-see-an-oil-industry-ad-than-a-climate-report-on-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/05\/youre-more-likely-to-see-an-oil-industry-ad-than-a-climate-report-on-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re More Likely to See an Oil Industry Ad than a Climate Report on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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25 Apr 2016 – <\/em>Planet Earth is shattering climate records<\/a> left and right.\u00a0But don\u2019t expect CNN viewers to know that. Over\u00a0two recent weeks,\u00a0the network aired more oil industry advertising than climate change coverage\u00a0\u2014 nearly five times more.<\/p>\n

Media Matters for America, a left-leaning advocacy group that tracks media bias, recently studied<\/a> two weeks of CNN\u2019s daytime and prime-time coverage. The first week, Jan. 20-26, followed an announcement by scientists that 2015 had been the hottest year on record. The second week, March 17-23, came after a similar announcement that February 2016 was not only the warmest February on record, but by the largest monthly deviation ever recorded.<\/p>\n

Yet during those two weeks, CNN aired 23 minutes and 30 seconds of American Petroleum Institute ads, compared to around five minutes of coverage of climate change and temperature records. And those figures\u00a0don\u2019t even account for \u201cdozens of Koch Industries ads that also ran on CNN, which were not energy-focused but did serve to boost the image of the oil billionaire Koch brothers\u2019 primary corporation,\u201d the Media Matters study notes.<\/p>\n

Check it out in visual form:<\/p>\n

\"climate_coverage_vs-_fossil_fuel_ads7<\/a><\/p>\n

Come on, CNN.<\/p>\n

At\u00a0least its\u00a0climate coverage doesn\u2019t rely on stuffed armadillos, like some other networks we could point to:<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ujgak8N8rVE<\/p>\n

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Correction: Due to an editing error, this post initially said that February 2016 was the warmest month ever. It was in fact the\u00a0most unusually warm month ever<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planet Earth is shattering climate records left and right. But don\u2019t expect CNN viewers to know that. Over two recent weeks, the network aired more oil industry advertising than climate change coverage \u2014 nearly five times more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}