Global warming and the media

Global Warming and the Media, by veteran New York Times journalist John Corry, offers readers an in-depth study of how the mainstream media cover the global warming debate, and examines the complex scientific and public-policy questions surrounding this important issue. The author looks at various factors affecting news coverage, and discusses the science behind the front-page headlines of impending ecological doom. Media coverage of global warming, Corry argues, has a particularly large role in how public policy is formed. "It is precisely because the policy debate is framed by, and frequently conducted by, journalists that the issue of media coverage is entwined so thoroughly in the global warming debate," he writes. This is essential reading for anyone following this important debate.