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THAT THE WORSENING CLIMATE CRISIS IS MAKING THE PLANET INCREASINGLY INHOSPITABLE TO HUMAN LIFE is a storyline that finally appears in a number of news outlets. But there are more
Photo by Lucas Hoang on Unsplash By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff /Project Censored In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News, that peoples’ need to identify the day’s most important and relevant news from the continuous torrent of available information would eventually
This story is featured in CityBeat's Jan. 10 print edition.
Trust in media is at an all-time low, in part because of corporate outlets’ failure to cover what’s really going on.
“We have made the planet inhospitable to human life.” That’s what the lead researcher in Project Censored’s number one story this year said. He wasn’t talking about the climate catastrophe. He was talking about so-called “forever chemicals,” per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), linked to prostate, kidney, and testicular cancer and additional health risks, and the study he led found unsafe levels in rainwater worldwide.