BBC on planning next year’s news agenda have explicitly parked climate change in the category “Done That Already, Nothing New to Say.”

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MBrayne says:
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I suspect this might not get read much, being so far down the thread (and so long), but as a former BBC foreign correspondent and World Service editor who has been struggling with precisely this monumental failure of journalism on climate change, I have to agree with all those above who point out that this isn’t primarily about the money, but about peer-standing and culture.

I heard from a former colleague last night (discussing climate change at a very poorly-attended screening at the Frontline Club of the movie Collapse with Michael Ruppert – yes, flawed, but with much sound analysis about oil and energy) that the internal editorial discussions now under way at the BBC on planning next year’s news agenda have explicitly parked climate change in the category “Done That Already, Nothing New to Say.”
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I am tragically certain, wearing now a still newish psychotherapist’s hat and putting it horribly bluntly, that Western-style journalism (reflecting as it of course does the emotions of politics, economics and public opinion) will only take climate change seriously, as a fact, once very large numbers of people start dying. As in, hundreds of thousands to millions, and quite clearly climate-change-related.

The Pakistan floods were shocking, as were the Russian summer peat fires. But in order for enough of humanity to wake up (as we all ultimately, or course, will), tragically in every way not enough people died. Ouch.