Media: Media’s “climate experts” do not understand their own subjects
Why you can’t trust the media on climate. This is not how to do climate communications.
Media: Context free news item of the day
It’s time for the annual “% of Americans who can’t pay their bills” media content mill nonsense. It’s sort of the same every year.
Media: Back again with the same story they run every few months
Every few months, CNBC and others publish the same story: “60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck”, which is where has been, is and will be, pretty much forever. This isn’t news. It’s content mill fluff.
Others are calling out the elite-ness of today’s media
Today’s journalists are a mono-culture (nearly 4 in 5 have degrees in arts and humanities), and at the national level, attended elite universities, with global experiences. They are disconnected from the public about which they report, and for whom their stories are targeted.