Arrests At Protest Over New York Times' 'Unacceptable' Climate Coverage
Source: The Guardian
12:14 EDT. Protesters block avenue between Port Authority and NYT. Extinction Rebellion calls for better coverage of climate crisis. A climate change protest orchestrated by the Extinction Rebellion activist group briefly blocked Eighth Avenue in New York on Saturday afternoon, between the Port Authority transit hub and the home of the New York Times.
The New York police department (NYPD) said 70 people were arrested as they called for more effective media coverage of the dangers of climate change, in a dramatic demonstration that saw people stage a die-in in front of the newspaper building and disrupt traffic in midtown Manhattan.
Two demonstrators scaled the front of the Port Authority building, which houses a major bus terminal and subway interchange, to hang a protest banner. Protesters also climbed on to the canopy outside the Times headquarters and unfurled a banner that encouraged the use of the phrase "climate emergency" instead of "climate change".
One protester, Donna Nicolino, told the Guardian she was ready to be arrested, because "we want the New York Times as well as all the other media to treat climate change as the crisis it is". -MORE...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/22/new-york-times-protest-climate-crisis-coverage
"The lack of coverage of the climate crisis is completely unacceptable," said Becca Trabin, a member of Extinction Rebellion's press and fundraising teams. "It's a public safety crisis on a global scale." "No one wants to hear about the climate crisis every day but if we don't read about it every day we endanger ourselves," she said.
Danielle Rhoades Ha, a spokeswoman for the NYT said that in 2018 the newspaper published 795 articles about the climate, including investigative stories and dispatches from across the globe about the impact of climate change. "There is no national news organization that devotes more time, staff or resources to producing deeply reported coverage to help readers understand climate change than The New York Times," she said. "We fully support this group's right to express their point of view, even when we disagree with it as it relates to our coverage."
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