AJ gave more air time to climate change in one day than any other network has in a year

[Recursion]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/21/what-al-jazeera-america-didnt-say-about-climate/195510

During its first day on the air, Al Jazeera America gave climate change nearly half as much coverage as network news programs did during the year 2012, all while avoiding common pitfalls like providing false balance to those that deny the science and leaving the crisis' manmade origins ambiguous.

The fledgling network's first climate report comprised the entirety of Tuesday's edition of Inside Story, a half-hour news discussion program that promises to "take an in-depth look at the story behind the headlines." Indeed, the inaugural show featured a meaningful dialogue on -- in guest Heidi Cullen's words -- "coming to terms with the fact that we're all part of the problem ... [and] the solution" to manmade global warming, and discussed consequences like extreme weather and rising sea levels. It never wavered on the veracity of the issue.

Al Jazeera America's 30 minutes of climate coverage (about 24 minutes not including commercial breaks) represented nearly half of what was seen on all network nightly news programs in 2012, and more than what was featured by CNN's Erin Burnett OutFront and Anderson Cooper 360 and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity combined in the past four and a half months:

Damn.

[hatrack]

1. This should surprise no one

Other nations' journalists do reality, we do Honey Boo-Boo, Kardashians and yellow-tape news.

[Half-Century Man]

2. Wonder how long...

...before AJ capitulates or everybody else looks up the word Journalism.

Go Al Jazeera
side note; the spellchecker didn't know "Jazeera", bet that changes fast.

[felix_numinous]

3. We are all Earthlings

the nationalistic mindset in many ways is very destructive, and the US has yet to shift completely away from the old paranoid isolationist attitudes.

Imagine just half our military budget put into preparing for climate change and cooperation with the rest of the world.