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This 7 page paper discusses how modern-day environmental issues are impacted by the media. This paper explores specific issues such as global warming, oil spills and more and reveals how media influences the public perception of these issues. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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attempt to distinguish the reality of the hazard from the medias perception and reporting of the hazard, if in fact there is a distinction to be made. Some environmental
issues do indeed become media "favorites", and enjoy periodic courses of popularity not necessarily associated with any fundamental shift in the hazard itself. Clearly such instances greatly impact the
public perception of such issues, and markedly affect the level of tolerance which is afforded to such matters. Modern Environmental Issues A
poignant example of media involvement in an environmental issue thereby creating a controversy between the reality and the perception is global warming. The media has been very vocal about
this issue and has most often pointed the finger at society itself as the cause of this environmental affliction. It is actually quite interesting to note how the media
have effectively ignored the stance of global warming critics who maintain the problem itself to be much less severe and/or purport that global warming is in fact not affected whatsoever
from societal influences (Media Biased on Global Warming, 2003). One reporter tells of how global warming actually came to have
any news interest in the first place: The scientific conviction that global warming is happening and is being caused by man increased little by little, year by year (blue
line). It was, however, so dull and incredibly boring because there was never anything to report that no news editor would want to report it. In 1988, the media
reaction to global warming suddenly shot up. The catalyst for this was Mrs Thatcher, who suddenly said mankind might be tampering with the planet itself. The most powerful woman in
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