Link to the Show / Show NotesThis week on CounterSpin: The so-called Climategate scandal seems to have throw media coverage of climate change back a decade, with news outlets giving climate deniers more or less equal time alongside actual climate scientists. Part of the problem has been the media's general laziness in explaining what is actually in the hacked emails that are the source of the scandal; Curtis Brainard of Columbia Journalism Review will join us to provide some of that missing context.
Also on the show: the Comcast NBC merger might sound like inside-industry news, but those looking at it carefully say the combining of the country's biggest cable provider and NBC poses very real threats to the diversity of video content we can get and how much we'll have to pay for it. We’ll hear that story from Corie Wright, policy counsel at the group Free Press.
LINKS:
--CJR: The Observatory
--Free Press
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