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Think they did it. joining me to talk about this and climate change more broadly, mickey the named physicist cbs news contributor and author of books the future of the mind out next week and jack, a senior editor at the huffington post who covers the media world titled meet the press how not to cover climate change. you re the expert here. tell us how definitive is the evidence, any room for debate? climate change is the 800 pound gorilla in the living room that media dances around but in the scientific community it s a settled question. 95% of scientists believe this is happening with 100% confidence temperatures are rising. with 90% confidence we believe is human activity and not natural cycles that is driving the increase in temperature on the earth. when you see a television segment that features a denier, how do you feel? do you feel that network or ....
Real political figure, this is a side show. mag ki, you raise a good point about the new york governorship. if he does go further down that road maybe there s a difference between that and these threats to run for president in the past. if he runs for governor he is running for something and that all goes away. it stops becoming this is a fake candidacy which is what everyone is saying on twitter, that s been the heart of this issue. i am skeptical that he s going to run for governor. i think at the end of the day it s going to be rob or some lesser known candidate who challenges cuomo. again, some of this is also to be put candidly on the new york republican party which is sort of entertaining this in the first place. it s not really just the media s fault when you members of the state senate and state assembly and county chairs who all as mckay s said, trek to trump tower to kiss the ring and do some dance here, we are we obligated to cover that or not cover that? that is the o ....
thanks, brian. it was a segment on your show the lead that got me thinking why we don t hear about bowe bergdahl more often. what do you think are the main reasons this p.o.w. doesn t gain more attention in the national media? it s a complicated story to begin with. probably the main reason that stories of americans being held captive either by foreign nations or groups like the taliban, the main reason is because generally speaking the u.s. government and the families often request that the media not cover it because the more you cover it, the more power you are theoretically giving to those holding the american prisoner or hostage. that s not always the case. sometimes families ask the media to cover it because they feel the u.s. government isn t doing enough, but when negotiations are starting to heat up the media is requested to not cover the story and quite often the media does that because ....
there is a lack of coverage in the press by and larges especially on television. media matters just a few weeks ago did a study looking at all of the broadcast news coverage of climate change. they found that on the sunday shows in all of 2013, there was 27 minutes total combined on the big four shows on snbs, cbs, abc and fox. one show meet the press did no coverage at all. face the nation on cbs had the most. the broadcast evening news shows covered it more probably because they do more coverage of extreme weather events and so when you talk about extreme weather often you find yourself talking about climate change. by and large we re talking about a huge issue really under covered on our major outlets. and so we would think as we have last week, three of those sunday shows covering the topic think that would be a god thing. right. you said it wasn t. why is that? well, i really focused on meet the press, face the ....
Problem. i think that actually what drew me to this, i mean partly i wanted to call out the long con as i call it. more interesting to me was what is it that makes this billionaire who s already famous, rich, so obsessed with getting the political class to take him seriously, right? why is he so interested in this. and you concluded what? my conclusion was that, you know, at the end of the day, he s already done real estate, he s already done reality tv. he has fame. what he wants is credibility. what he wants is for at least some segment of the population to look at him as a serious person. and the problem and kind of great tragedy of him is that he doesn t know how to do that. he is a tremendous manipulator of the media, always has been and i don t say manipulator as pejorative. he knows how to work it. he can teach others how to do it. correct. this has been one of his really impressive characteristics. i will say to mckay s thing, saying he s part of the problem, we now h ....