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"News Corp Misleads Audience on Climate Change" [1]

"Brace yourself for some shocking news: a new study on Friday found that the two major publications of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation greatly mislead their audiences about climate change. The Union of Concerned Scientists combed six months of Fox News broadcasting and a year's worth of Wall Street Journal editorial pages for mentions of the science of 'climate change' and 'global warming,' then compared each claim to 'mainstream scientific understanding' of the topic at hand." They found 93% of the statements on Fox News were misleading and 81% of the statements on the Wall St. Journal's opionion pages were misleading.



Tim McDonnell reports for Mother Jones September 24, 2012. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Climate Change Missing From US Election Debate" (AP) [3]

"America's Miasma of Misinformation on Climate Change" (Guardian) [4]
 

Climate Change [5]
Journalism & Media [6]
Science [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Public [9]
Source: Mother Jones [2], 09/24/2012
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/news-corp-misleads-audience-climate-change [2] http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/09/breaking-news-corp-misleads-audience-climate-change [3] http://www.3news.co.nz/Climate-change-missing-from-US-election-debate/tabid/1160/articleID/270337/Default.aspx [4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/23/america-miasma-misinformation-climate-change [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/journalism/media [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81