{"id":907,"date":"2011-12-06T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/?p=907"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T20:39:53","slug":"collective-silence-on-durban-climate-talk-by-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2011\/12\/collective-silence-on-durban-climate-talk-by-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Silence on Durban Climate Talk by Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, although nothing substantial has happened yet at Durban, South Africa, I think it is still worth mentioning that such an important meeting is taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I just did a search. This is what I found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No mention of COP17 climate talk in Durban, South Africa on front page:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NYT, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Foxnews, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Washington Post: mentions on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Guardian, mentioned it on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ABCNews, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google News<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CNN, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;; massive black hole makes front page<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBSNews, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NPR, but has it on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MSNBC, no mention even on &#8220;World&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who mentioned it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>BBC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Huffington Post (barely)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xinhuanet (Chinese, featured)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zaobao (Singapore, somehow mentioned)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yahoo News (two links!)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bing news (1 link)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Onion (related article)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>United Nation News (of course)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USA Today (but basically bashing Gingrich for denying his previous support for taking actions about climate change and cap-and-trade; also make it sounds like climate change is not true)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;. Our planet is doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who did not report about Durban climate talks, seem to prefer news that a planet presumably located in a habitable zone of another solar system is found. Ironically, I do not think we can migrate to that planet before ours is destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I think that it seems <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2011\/12\/5\/the_road_to_durban_tracking_global\">Africa is going to be hit very hard by climate change<\/a>. But that is basically off most people&#8217;s radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, although nothing substantial has happened yet at Durban, South Africa, I think it is still worth mentioning that such an important meeting is taking place. So I just did a search. This is what I found: No mention of COP17 climate talk in Durban, South Africa on front page: Those who mentioned it: &#8230;.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/2011\/12\/collective-silence-on-durban-climate-talk-by-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Collective Silence on Durban Climate Talk by Media?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[240,182,239,40],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category--human-rights","category--political-issues","tag-bias","tag-censorship","tag-climate-change","tag-media","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitamin-max.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}