What role has the media played in the climate crisis?

For decades, around the world, climate change coverage has been
thin. Guests discuss why the media in petrol states, in
particular, have struggled to tell that story. Science illiteracy
in newsrooms has led to a mixture of climate silence and false
balance in print and on air. But, even when the science has not
been contested, the way the crisis has been reported may have
caused audiences to turn away. Can climate coverage learn lessons
from how that other hugely consequential science story of our
time – the pandemic - has been told? Contributors : Mark
Herstsgaard, co-founder Covering Climate Now Marianna
Poberezhskaya, associate professor Nottingham Trent University
Kris De Meyer, neuroscientist Kings College London Wolfgang Blau,
The Reuters Institute


Presenter: Graihagh Jackson Producer: Rosamund Jones Editor: Emma
Rippon