Sign the petition: CNN should stop being a billboard for Big Oil and report on climate change
CNN leadership, including Jeff Zucker, Michael Bass, Katrina Cukaj, and Richard Davis:
In the weeks following announcements that 2015 was the hottest year on record, CNN aired FIVE TIMES more fossil fuel advertising than climate reporting. Specifically, CNN aired 23.5 minutes of American Petroleum Institute ads, compared to just five minutes of coverage about climate change or temperature records.
The American Petroleum Institute, a lobby group that has denied climate change, is getting more airtime than news about humanity’s greatest challenge.
Only one of CNN’s three inadequate reports about temperature records mentioned “climate change” or “global warming” -- and none addressed the ways humans are causing climate change.
As one of the largest news organizations and a leading network covering key issues like science, the presidential election and more, we need CNN to do better. We demand CNN #ReportOnClimate.
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CNN leadership, including Jeff Zucker, Michael Bass, Katrina Cukaj, and Richard Davis:
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Research has shown that CNN spent more time on fossil fuel advertising than they did reporting on climate change -- by 5-to-1. And this disparity in air time happened right after we found that 2015 was the hottest year on record!
This kind of Climate Silence is unacceptable. We call on you to reject ads from fossil fuel polluters like American Petroleum Institute and the Koch brothers, and start covering the climate crisis every day.