2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCable News Virtually Ignores Obama’s Major Climate Speech
On Tuesday, President Obama rolled out a plan to cap carbon emissions at existing power plants, improve efficiency standards on automobiles, double the amount of electricity produced with renewables, and lead a global movement to address climate change. But the media virtually ignored it.
All of the three major news networks spent mere minutes on the speech which ran in total 49 minutes.
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While the lack of coverage is shocking enough, perhaps the most astounding media failure of the day was by FOX News, who broke from Obamas climate speech to interview climate denier Chris Horner. Horner works for the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, and is largely funded by the oil money, including the Koch Brothers and Exxon-Mobil.
Of course, a media blackout on climate issues is nothing new. Even when outlets cover the devastating and very real affects of a changing climate, they are reluctant to mention climate change by name. Recently, the midwest experienced historic flooding, but only 3 percent of coverage used the term. When hurricane Sandy tore its way through New York, literally no newspapers mentioned a climate connection. Perhaps this comes from the shady, and undisclosed, connection between major news outlets and dirty energy interests.
http://thinkprogress.org/media/2013/06/25/2213101/media-blackout-climate-speech/
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(68,868 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)related to climate change is disgusting.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)cbayer
(146,218 posts)alsame
(7,784 posts)bother with the cables anymore.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)except I do stream the Daily Show and Colbert Report when I can.
alsame
(7,784 posts)proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)...using the Bully Pulpit. They'll complain that he doesn't have a plan or a message or... BLAH, BLAH, BLAH!!
Bookmarking.
alsame
(7,784 posts)topic than Obama. Corporate media does not want to irritate the energy syndicates.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)cover that speech. The bloggosphere and commentators are frustrated because they haven't seen or heard the president speak on these issues, so they claim that he hasn't done so.
It's happened over and over again during his entire presidency. He'd be out there giving speeches, meeting with people, traveling to Small Town U.S.A. to discuss Obamacare, for instance. Not to mention his Weekly Addresses that no one talks about.
None of these things are covered. One wouldn't know what the president did on a day to day basis re: messaging unless they followed his schedule.
The Corporate Media doesn't cover much of that--especially when it's of substance. For instance, they'll cover the parts of his speech where he's interrupted by a heckler, but again, not the SUBSTANTIVE, policy aspects of his speeches. It's not just on climate change. It's on a host of issues.
alsame
(7,784 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)spleen out with speeches, town hall visits, community chats on all kinds of issues.
The Corporate Media also ignored his big foreign policy speech where he outlined his position on drone strikes, discussed his efforts at closing Gitmo and directly blamed the Republicans for blocking it, etc. That speech was not covered to the extent that it needed to be for people to stop complaining.
He's done these things throughout his entire presidency but those events are not covered; or, they're covered by not adequately shown to the public.
So people complain that he's not out there. That he's not making use of the bully pulpit. It's all bullshit!
All one has to do if they want to see what he's doing on a daily basis is visit his daily schedule:
whitehouse.gov
People have time to sit and bitch on discussion forums, but they could use that energy to actually SEE what the president is doing via his daily schedule.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,405 posts)Hardly anywhere on CBS website - 19 stories given more prominence (though, notably, the most discussed topic - CBS should pay more attention to its readers)
Over 20 stories more prominent on ABC News
2nd story on NBC News - after Voting Rights Act decision
Don't give a shit what the Fox Propaganda Network says.
So, CBS and ABC are fucked up.
Cha
(297,935 posts)some things I've read about some of their forecasters not supporting the Climate Change Reality.
As for the other corpmedia.. Just enough for people to get a taste of the speech and then yank it away.
If anyone wants to watch it.. I have it posted here..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110211403#post2
thanks alsame
jenmito
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