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Saturday, March 7th, 2015

Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre

Author:     Alan Rusbridger
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Friday 6 March 2015 07.32 EST
 Link: Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre
Stephan:   I think this is really good news. The Guardian, which is part of the Guardian Media Group is, in my estimation, the most intelligent, fact based, and balanced newspaper in the English language. The Guardian Media Group  is wholly owned by Scott Trust Limited, a foundation not a corporation.  The trust exists solely to secure the financial and editorial independence of  The Guardian in perpetuity. There is no other newspaper like it in the world.
Alan Rusbridger. Credit: Graeme Robertson

Alan Rusbridger.
Credit: Graeme Robertson

Journalism tends to be a rear-view mirror. We prefer to deal with what has happened, not what lies ahead. We favour what is exceptional and in full view over what is ordinary and hidden.

Famously, as a tribe, we are more interested in the man who bites a dog than the other way round. But even when a dog does plant its teeth in a man, there is at least something new to report, even if it is not very remarkable or important.

There may be other extraordinary and significant things happening – but they may be occurring too slowly or invisibly for the impatient tick-tock of the newsroom or to snatch the attention of a harassed reader on the way to work.

What is even more complex: there may be things that have yet to happen – stuff that cannot even be described as news on the grounds that news is stuff that has already happened. If it is not yet news – if it […]

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