Exposing Denial

Media Balance as Bias

The media plays a crucial role in communicating climate science to the public, but the journalistic norm of balance, in the case of climate change, can misinform the public about the science.

Source: Denial101x (a MOOC from UQx and edX)

Credit: Media Balance as Bias, originally published in UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial, 2017 (CC-BY-SA 4.0)

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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