{"id":46435,"date":"2019-05-28T06:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46435"},"modified":"2019-05-28T06:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:49:21","slug":"dear-journalists-of-canada-start-reporting-climate-change-as-an-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46435","title":{"rendered":"Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Mediacheck\/2019\/05\/28\/Start-Reporting-Climate-Change-Emergency\/\">Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer Royal babies and a lot more of our unfolding global catastrophe.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Opinion\/2017\/07\/11\/Gustafson-Fire.jpg\" alt=\"Gustafson-Fire.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Few media stories mentioned the demonstrable connection between the climate crisis and increasing wildfire activity in BC last summer, even though it was one of the major reasons why that season was the worst on record.&nbsp;Photo via the BC Wildfire Service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To:<br>Karyn Pugliese, president, Canadian Association of Journalists<br>Martin O\u2019Hanlon, president, CWA Canada<br>Fiona Conway, president, Radio Television Digital News Association<br>John Hinds, president and chief executive officer, News Media Canada<br>Jerry Dias, national president, Unifor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cc:<br>Canada\u2019s editors, news directors, publishers and station managers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 6, the United Nations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2019\/05\/nature-decline-unprecedented-report\/\">released<\/a>&nbsp;a scientific report warning that around a million species are threatened with extinction due to human activity, including climate change. But, according to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/article\/the-royal-baby-is-cute-and-all-but-hello-the-planet-is-on-fire\/\">analysis<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/\">Media Matters for America<\/a>, on the day of that release, the nightly newscasts of ABC and NBC felt it was more important that their audiences learned about the birth of the newest Royal baby \u2014 someone who will likely never have any say over their day-to-day lives. And I\u2019ve found most of Canada\u2019s 15 most-read English language daily broadsheets felt the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between May 6 and 7, 13 of those newspapers failed to front stories about the United Nations\u2019 devastating finding. Instead, the National Post ran a story about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex\u2019s son, with 10 others teasing that birth on their front pages. Eight of the teasers were placed above-the-fold, next to a photograph, or both \u2014 drawing reader attention to pictures of Harry, Meghan and their beaming well-wishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer Royal babies and a lot more of our unfolding global catastrophe. To:Karyn Pugliese, president, Canadian Association of JournalistsMartin O\u2019Hanlon, president, CWA CanadaFiona Conway, president, Radio Television Digital News AssociationJohn Hinds, president and chief executive officer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[103,13249,25982,462,496,24816,23884],"class_list":["post-46435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-canada","tag-climate-emergency","tag-global-catastrophe","tag-journalism","tag-mainstream-media","tag-sean-holman","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46436,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46435\/revisions\/46436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}