In their coverage of the LA fires, neither the NYT Daily podcast nor the NYT Morning Newsletter addresses climate change at all. The Daily has a single throwaway mention but doesn’t actually talk about it and the newsletter just ignores it. Again, climate chaos’ central role is conspicuously absent - ThreadSky

ahjohnson.bsky.social • 49 days ago

In their coverage of the LA fires, neither the NYT Daily podcast nor the NYT Morning Newsletter addresses climate change at all. The Daily has a single throwaway mention but doesn’t actually talk about it and the newsletter just ignores it. Again, climate chaos’ central role is conspicuously absent

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nevergoingback1003.bsky.social•44 days ago

They did today.

carlinwasright.bsky.social•49 days ago

Which also creates an information vacuum for bad faith actors to step in and make up bullshit causes.

phillyfilly.bsky.social•49 days ago

The COST of CLIMATE CHANGE is coming into focus. And now it’s TOO LATE. We didn’t prevent it so now we have to PAY FOR OUR MISTAKES.

notaboomer.bsky.social•49 days ago

Don’t look up

animatewithdermot.bsky.social•49 days ago

Don't worry. The billionaires are going to fly us to Mars on a massive new spaceship, called 'ANIARA'.

notaboomer.bsky.social•49 days ago

I’m thinking it’s to the prison moon

chrisedelson.bsky.social•49 days ago

I listened to NPR this morning and didn't hear them say anything about climate change in context of covering the LA fires either--perhaps they discussed it elsewhere, but not in coverage I heard between about 7 and 8 am eastern time

bigworker.bsky.social•49 days ago

Writing about the causes of things is too political

mirandacspencer.bsky.social•49 days ago

Ironically The NY Times used to have a dedicated climate desk. Big reason they ignore it is the $ they earn from creating oil industry propaganda in their advertorial studio. WaPo and others do too. Check it out.

ahjohnson.bsky.social•49 days ago

per usual with the NYT, the horrors people are witnessing on their TLs and TV screens are stripped of all politics and human agency. Bad things simply happen and human interest stories follow. No one in power in the US is responsible for anything really

enoa-cm.bsky.social•49 days ago

have they blamed trans people yet

hailthefi.sh•49 days ago

I've seen them blaming the homeless but I haven't seen them blame trans people.

Yet.

ganondalf.bsky.social•49 days ago

That's not true. Sometimes Democrats cause them, usually when they're running for president

ahjohnson.bsky.social•49 days ago

and if the fact of climate change is ever mentioned in the context of extreme weather stories it’s as a largely abstract collective human failing, not driven by fossil fuel corporations and venal governments actors.

ahjohnson.bsky.social•49 days ago

Given the extremely limited time table to actually reverse our climate death spiral one would think news editors would understand the urgency of connecting major, mass traumatizing extreme weather events to climate change, especially since this connection is overwhelming scientific consensus. Alas.

bitaviani.bsky.social•49 days ago

it's especially telling that they can't/refuse to make this connection even when extremely privileged and wealthy people are directly affected as they are in the los angeles fires

rogerbull.bsky.social•49 days ago

Most of MSM is owned by billionaires who are desperately trying to become trillionaires.

walter1964.bsky.social•49 days ago

I realized long time ago that podcasters are stealing your articles and even though it's not plagiarism it's not hard to see where those ideas are coming from

ftfdec.bsky.social•49 days ago

A great summary of the NYT.

biophiliac777.bsky.social•49 days ago

NYT won't change as long as they are raking in the fossil fuels advertising $$s. They have excellent climate reporters but keep the coverage siloed.

brazuca.bsky.social•49 days ago

The boiling frogs are blaming DEI

w33nie.bsky.social•49 days ago

The American Petroleum Institute is running ads on the Daily, so probably not gonna bite the hand that feeds them.

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