{"id":16567,"date":"2024-10-16T18:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=16567"},"modified":"2024-11-17T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T18:55:27","slug":"media-why-climate-journalism-is-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/10\/16\/media-why-climate-journalism-is-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Media&#8217;s &#8220;climate experts&#8221; do not understand their own subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"613\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-147.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-147.png 613w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-147-600x309.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-147-524x270.png 524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kevindkillough\/status\/1846591050640736740\">Kevin Killough on X: &#8220;@ChrisMartzWX \ud83d\udc4bHi, energy journalist here. There is a huge amount of funding from anti-fossil fuel activist groups going to organizations like @CoveringClimate and the @sejorg, and in some cases directly to news outlets, to demonize fossil fuels with climate narratives. And these&#8221; \/ X<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most reporting today is that of stenographers &#8211; who regurgitate press releases. See other posts on this blog for more examples of media &#8220;climate experts&#8221; that have an MFA in fiction writing (really). They do not have the skills to question and think critically about the science and engineering subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why you can&#8217;t trust the media on climate. This is not how to do climate communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-private","category-climate-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}