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The Climate Mirror

Mainstream media complaints reveal widespread discontent over climate change reporting and a lack of scientific literacy among journalists.

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It turns out that readers at popular climate blogs on opposite ends of the spectrum have similar complaints about the media. From a commenter at WUWT:

The LA Times has been a socialist rag, suitable mostly for lining the bottom of a parrot's cage, for decades. When their marketers used to call to ask me to subscribe, I'd just tell them, "I don't need the Times; I subscribe to Pravda and get everything a day earlier, including your editorials!"

From a commenter at Climate Progress:

Our mainstream media is clearly hopeless...for whatever reasons- mostly money, of course- our major media outlets are staffed by hopeless whores, beyond contempt and incapable of communicating facts that are central to the public interest.

From a commenter at WUWT:

Why should we be surprised that the "˜journalists' at the NYT do not understand basic physics or science? They believe in climate apocalypse, after all.

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