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plantedcity:

From Reuters:

Global concern about climate change has risen only very slightly over the past two years, as consumers have focused on more immediate economic worries, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday.

Nielsen’s latest global online environment and sustainability survey showed that 69 percent of 25,000 Internet users in 51 countries were concerned about climate change in 2011, slightly up from 66 percent in a similar poll in 2009, but down from 72 percent in 2007.

“Focus on immediate worries such as job security, local school quality and economic wellbeing have all diminished media attention for climate stories in the past two years,” said Maxwell Boykoff, who was an adviser to the survey and is senior visiting research associate at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute.

Hopes for a global climate treaty have faded over the past couple of years as successive United Nations meetings have failed to clinch a binding deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions, which are widely blamed for stoking global warming.

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In China, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter, climate change concern has dropped to 64 percent from 77 percent in the last two years.

In the United States, the second biggest emitter and the only industrialized nation not signed up to the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol for curbing emissions, the number of those concerned has fallen steadily to 48 percent, from 51 percent in 2009 and 62 percent in 2007.

The regions with the highest levels of concern were Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific.

Check out the rest of the article here.

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ladiesmakingcomics:

How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves.

I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to look at…

nprfreshair:

David Bianculli explains why vampire dramas will continue to be the most durable media monsters of them all: “So zombies may be popular now, and werewolves and witches may be on the rise — but for a safe, long-term investment in pop culture’s fascination with the paranormal, I say take your money and let it ride on vampires. They’re undead in more ways than one — every generation, they always seem to earn a brand new life.”

nprfreshair:

David Bianculli explains why vampire dramas will continue to be the most durable media monsters of them all: “So zombies may be popular now, and werewolves and witches may be on the rise — but for a safe, long-term investment in pop culture’s fascination with the paranormal, I say take your money and let it ride on vampires. They’re undead in more ways than one — every generation, they always seem to earn a brand new life.”

capitalnewyork:

There may be no single member of the media with better reason to seize on Donald Trump as a topic than Eliot Spitzer, who co-hosts a show on CNN that until recently bore his name but is currently called “In the Arena.” Spitzer himself has allowed it to be said without denying it that he’s flirting with a mayoral run in 2013, which would pit him against Rep. Anthony Weiner, among others, in a Democratic primary. (Spitzer has described his own waffling on the matter as “not Shermanesque.”) But last week, Spitzer used his platform to open a public dialog with Trump, specifically to discuss the issue of Trump’s accounting of his own finances. This was a particularly rich vein for Spitzer to mine. – JOSH BENSON for Capital New York

pantslessprogressive:

nationaljournal:

Obama to reporter: “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?”

PP: It’s too bad we didn’t hear this from President Obama when Bill O’Reilly interrupted him 72 times during their Super Bowl interview.

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urlesque:

Encyclopedia Dramatica has long been the internet’s source for finding out what’s happening on 4Chan’s /b/ without actually reading /b/, but it looks like this often-vulgar compendium of weird internet culture has been shut down and cleaned up. The new, sanitized wiki, OhInternet, scrubs out the racism and gross-out content … it’s like Know Your Meme, but entirely user-editable.

More: Encyclopedia Dramatica Goes Clean, Becomes OhInternet

futurejournalismproject:

FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver analyzed a month’s worth of citations to the Web’s top English language news sites. The top 30 above is a good indicator of reach and influence:

The way I’ve determined to study this is pretty simple. I’ve tracked the number of times that the publication’s name has appeared in Google News and Google Blog Search over the past month, followed by the word “reported.” For instance, to track the number of citations for The Chicago Tribune, I’d look for instances of the phrase “Chicago Tribune reported.” (In some cases, I’ve permitted multiple search terms for the same news outlet — for example, both “BBC reported” and “BBC News reported.”)

Obviously, there are other ways that a news outlet’s reporting might be referenced: “according to The Guardian” as opposed to “The Guardian reported.” So this won’t capture every time that an outlet’s reporting is cited; the idea, instead, is that it should be a representative sample.

Silver chose the sites analyzed by taking the top 100 blogs from Technorati, the top 100 circulation newspapers in the United States, the top 100 newspapers in global circulation and Memeorandum’s top 100 news sources.

His full list can be viewed here.

Fascinating. AP is a dangerous organization, then.

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