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Recent Posts
- Changing the Cultural Climate … on Climate Culture
- Lines in the Sand
- Competing Narratives in U.S. Television News
- Mind-Blowing Heartland Street Poster Fiasco
- High School Climate Education Highlighted in PBS NewsHour Segment
- Alley Points to His ‘Personal Milestones’ and Dog Walking …
- Localizing Climate Change Stories
Author Archives: Bill Dawson
European Coverage Varies on Jellyfish … Climate Change Connection … or Lack of
Sure, climate change now has a more prominent place on the media agenda. But that doesn’t mean news organizations will always pay prominent attention – or any attention, for that matter – to the global warming angle in a given [...]
Old, New Media Cultures Illustrated In Coverage of NASA’s Hansen in Houston
As the nation’s oil capital and home to the first President Bush, Houston might seem to outsiders an unlikely place for Hansen to receive such a positive media reception. He is, after all, an outspoken critic of the current Bush [...]
Newsweek’s ‘Hoax’ Cover Story Raises Ire of Deniers, … and also Criticism from Within
“Hoax” is a potent accusation, a four-letter grenade of a word. In the public discussion of anthropogenic climate change, prominent conservatives such as Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) and radio commentator Rush Limbaugh have used it to convey profound suspicion about [...]



