Beyonce Coverage 11X News On Deforestation; Diva Also Thrashing Ocean Issues 5-1
Pity the trees. For U.S. newspapers and television, celebrity articles and gossip trump stories about the environment by a wide margin.
Beyonce Knowles, the pop singer and actress, gets 11 times more mentions in U.S. media than stories about deforestation and five times more than the ocean’s health, according to a report by the Project for Improved Environmental Coverage non-profit group. Environmental stories made up less than 1 percent of headlines last year, its survey shows.
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“The environment intersects with a number of other issue areas people care a great deal about, like health, the economy and national security to name a few,” said Todd Pollak, co-director of the group. “And we know Americans want more.” About 79 percent are interested in more environmental stories, he said.
Climate change was the most visible environmental topic among 10 highlighted by the study. Carbon emissions have also attracted political attention in the runup to United Nations talks this December in Paris after commitments by the U.S. and China, the two largest economies, to reduce output of greenhouse gases in the coming decades.
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