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Media power and climate change

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Fingers are often pointed directly at the news media for their powerful influence and ineffective reporting of climate change. But is that the best place to point? And are there more effective ways to conceptualize the power of the media and to consider whom they serve?

Over the past two decades, there has been much critique of news media coverage of climate change, including both subtle and overt suggestions that the media should be more of a watchdog of this issue. At the same time, some research1 concludes that mass media are powerful agents for the way they frame climate change in news stories.

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