Why the Media Ignores Climate Change (Moyers Video)

Juan Cole 07/14/2013

Bill Moyers interviews media critic Marty Kaplan:

“Marty Kaplan on Why the Media Ignores Climate Change

Media scholar Marty Kaplan sits with Bill Moyers to discuss how and why major news media, including Fox News and CNN, choose to ignore critical news and information about climate change — leaving comedy shows like The Daily Show and The Late Show to pick up the slack.”

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page