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Joseph Romm on Climate Summit, Elinore Longobardi on ‘Subprime’ vs. ...

Joseph Romm on Climate Summit, Elinore Longobardi on ‘Subprime’ vs. ...

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DATE : Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0100
Entered in Database : 2009-09-25 04:00:00
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This week on CounterSpin: the highest-level conference yet on climate change took place this week at the UN. The press made much of the obstacles faced on the way to any international agreement -- but if the front page of the country's paper of record is saying that temperatures haven't risen in 10 years, maybe one of those obstacles is media coverage? We'll talk to Joseph Romm of Climate Progress.org Also on the show: Words mean things and the way reporters use them can shade the way we see the world. A new study published in the Columbia Journalism review looks at the way "predatory," as in the term "predatory loans," a term that puts the onus on lenders, has been eclipsed in business reporting by the term "subprime," which puts the spotlight on the borrower. We'll talk to Elinore Longobardi the author of the new study "How 'Subprime' Killed 'Predatory.'"

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