Is Mainstream Media Stepping up to Its Role in Climate Fight?

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The media's attitude to climate change is evolving fast, argues Darcy Hitchcock, but it is time the press started to offer answers as well as questions

In the past, the choices that the media has made about what is considered newsworthy has been, well, revolting. Do we really have to watch OJ drive? Does my local news station really need to show a house-fire...

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