ABC The Drum - Players and observers in climate change media

Opening the conference Deutsche Welles director-general, Erik Bettermann, was pretty blunt. He spoke of journalists essentially being agents in the fight against climate change (there's no real debate among opinion leaders in Germany about climate change - here, global warming is taken as an accepted fact).

"I am convinced we need a climate change in the heads of journalists as well," he declared.

"Reporting needs to be about more than just the day's news. It needs to drive people to action, while showing deficits, solutions and different perspectives. And provide hope."
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Surely by "driving" our audience to action were becoming players, not just mere chroniclers of events?

And presumably that means ignoring the views of climate change sceptics or those scientists who aren't totally convinced that the climate models predicting dire consequences are entirely right?

Twitter / Tim Dickinson [I cover the National Affairs beat for Rolling Stone]

nobody -- not wh, senate, or epa -- seems to have a handle on what the end game for climate bill is