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"Is News Corp Failing Science?" 93% Misleading & 81% Misleading for Fox and the WSJ Opinions., Resp.
Is News Corp. Failing Science?
Representations of Climate Science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages
AARON HUERTAS, DENA ADLER
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
News Corporation is one of the world’s largest media companies. Under its Global Energy Initiative, the company has publicly committed to engaging its audiences on sustainability issues and the company publicly touts climate change initiatives among its successes.
Despite News Corp.’s public commitment to environmental sustainability, a snapshot analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) finds that recent portrayals of climate science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are overwhelmingly
misleading.
UCS’s analysis finds that:
• Over a recent six-month period, 93 percent of Fox News Channel’s representations of climate science were misleading (37 out of 40 instances).
• Similarly, over the past year, 81 percent of the representations of climate science in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section were
misleading (39 out of 48 instances).
The entire report is here: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Is-News-Corp-Failing-Science.pdf
Representations of Climate Science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages
AARON HUERTAS, DENA ADLER
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
News Corporation is one of the world’s largest media companies. Under its Global Energy Initiative, the company has publicly committed to engaging its audiences on sustainability issues and the company publicly touts climate change initiatives among its successes.
Despite News Corp.’s public commitment to environmental sustainability, a snapshot analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) finds that recent portrayals of climate science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are overwhelmingly
misleading.
UCS’s analysis finds that:
• Over a recent six-month period, 93 percent of Fox News Channel’s representations of climate science were misleading (37 out of 40 instances).
• Similarly, over the past year, 81 percent of the representations of climate science in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section were
misleading (39 out of 48 instances).
The entire report is here: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Is-News-Corp-Failing-Science.pdf
