[ennui2]

Please stop claiming the MSM doesn't cover doom. It DOES.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope- ... SKCN1174CG

If you guys won't concede it I will keep appending to this thread.

The whole blame the MSM thing is no different from Trump blaming the MSM. It's a scapegoating tactic.

It's not that the MSM won't cover doom--it's the fact it goes in one ear and out the other of the general public.

[ennui2]

Zing.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gre ... e_facebook

[ennui2]

I guess I'll drop these links in here for a while.

http://www.vox.com/2016/9/2/12754956/ar ... disappears

[ralfy]

Various military and intelligence organizations, science groups, multinational banks, and insurers have been issuing reports concerning peak oil, global warming, financial crises, etc., for some time.

[ennui2]

According to some on this board, the MSM doesn't cover doom. So I've got to prove gravity exists to them.

[dohboi]

Which types of doom are we talking about.

Very rare to have coverage of the Mass Extinction event we are going through, which should be pretty much the biggest story since complex life evolved on the planet.

And of course in the great, wide swath of the world's MSM, you can find some coverage of GW. But the many studies on it have found that, in the Anglophone world at least, and in the US in particular, it has not been covered very well, given the gravity and urgency of the matter:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]A number of studies have shown that particularly in the United States and in the UK tabloid press, the media significantly understated the strength of scientific consensus on climate change established in IPCC Assessment Reports

[ennui2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', '
')it has not been covered very well, given the gravity and urgency of the matter

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'V')arious military and intelligence organizations, science groups, multinational banks, and insurers have been issuing reports concerning peak oil, global warming, financial crises, etc., for some time.

[ennui2]

Zing:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ?CMP=fb_gu

[ennui2]

Zing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4giu0rgoI

[ralfy]

Multiple reports are shared in the link in my signature.

[ennui2]

Zing.

http://europe.newsweek.com/one-tenth-ea ... ars-496706

[ennui2]

ZING

http://www.sciencealert.com/bill-nye-ex ... d-on-earth

BTW, ScienceAlert's reach:
http://www.sciencealert.com/advertise-with-us
"Based in Australia, we reach an engaged international audience of more than 20 million people each week"

[regardingpo]

I will do the unspeakable and agree with ennui2.

[ennui2]

Thesis: MSM does cover doom.

Posts: Evidence that MSM covers doom.

Typical rebuttals:

The media outlet doesn't have sufficient readership to be classified MSM, or the reportage is not alarmist ENOUGH because it's not flailing and screaming that billions will die. Or it should be disregarded because it doesn't openly advocate for this or that solution (like abolishing money, steady state economy, instituting marxism, forced-sterilization, etc...)

None of these rebuttals disprove the point. MSM covers doom. The reason we're not trying to face doom enough is not the media's fault, it's human nature.

Too much of what people contribute here are grumpy drive-by screeds that are unsupported by any evidence. We are asked to just accept this because we're all assumed to be equally grumpy and cynical and fed-up with "the man".

Typical screed is "The media(TM) won't report doom because they(TM) need us to buy soap."

Well, sorry to insert some reality into the echo-chamber.

The media does focus on Kim Kardashian's ass too much, but it ALSO reports on doom.

People would rather fixate on Kim Kardashian's ass, though.

Is that not substantive and relavant enough to peak oil and limits to growth?

Should I jump in the 911 topic and keep rehashing a stale 15 year old tinfoil topic ad nauseum the way so many do instead?

Maybe post political caricatures?

I think we know how this place operates, with all it's dysfunction. It's about as obvious as...

[regardingpo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('regardingpo', 'I') will do the unspeakable and agree with ennui2.