Watch Five Hours of Cable News, Get One Minute of Environmental or Science Coverage
March 18, 2008 · Print This Article
We’re pleased to welcome new writer Anders Porter, a blogger, journalist, and Swedish/English translator from California currently living in Sweden. He blogs on his person website at Anders Porter dot com. This is his first post, so feel free to verbally haze his noob ass.
When I think of cable news, I think of broad, fair, and unbiased reporting. (Insert Fox News joke here.)
I take comfort in knowing that when I flip over to my MSNBC or my CNN, that the talking heads are going to take care of me, that they will dish out what I need, spoon feed me with my news food groups, if you know what I mean.
Well, according to the analysis of cable TV news coverage as reported in the 2008 Annual Report on American Journalism, the cable news networks are definitely living up to their promise of feeding their peeps. That is, of course, if you’re the kind of peep that munches on nothing nothing but politics, foreign policy debate and crime. If you’re looking for a little lettuce and tomato, that’s right - coverage of education, science and, oh yeah - THE ENVIRONMENT - then you gonna be sitting in front of that box for a long, long, long, long time. Uh-huh. Long time.
Turns out that during a five hour non-stop cable news marathon, it is likely that you will see 35 minutes about campaigns and elections and 1 minute and 25 seconds about the environment.
Sweeeeet. Nice to know we have our priorities worked out.
Link [2008 Anual Report on American Journalism] Via Framing Science
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