{"id":2691,"date":"2011-02-05T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2011-02-05T23:26:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T03:26:57","slug":"year-2-month-2-day-6-rule-britannia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-2-month-2-day-6-rule-britannia\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2, Month 2, Day 6: Rule, Britannia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian notes that in England, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2011\/jan\/31\/public-belief-climate-change\">the citizenry continues to be concerned about the climate, to the tune of 83 percent<\/a> \u2014 even in the wake of the various non-scandals that have captivated low-information Americans.<\/p>\n<p>I write to the Guardian often.  They write on this subject often, which makes them relatively rare in the world of major media outlets.  This letter is just a fairly standard &#8220;American media sucks, big-time&#8221; screed \u2014 not that that diminishes its relevance, of course.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britons&#8217; comprehension of the dangers posed by runaway climate change is a powerful contrast to the state of affairs in the United States, where a media system heavily influenced by Petrodollars has made a reality-based discussion of climate issues essentially impossible.  The irresponsibility of American broadcast and print media is astonishing; given the likelihood of major infrastructural disruptions from worldwide sea-level rise and increased storm activity, it would seem only reasonable for our public figures to treat this threat as a <em>threat<\/em>, rather than a political football.  But at this point, the notion of a responsible American media establishment is oxymoronic; US citizens are offered stenography in lieu of reportage, specious false equivalence instead of hard facts and expert analysis. It&#8217;s unsurprising that despite the drastic uptick in storms and extreme weather events, ever fewer Americans accept the actuality of climate change.  Why confront an expensive reality when illusions are cheap?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian notes that in England, the citizenry continues to be concerned about the climate, to the tune of 83 percent \u2014 even in the wake of the various non-scandals that have captivated low-information Americans. I write to the Guardian often. They write on this subject often, which makes them relatively rare in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[644],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-media-irresponsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}