Monday, September 18, 2017

An Ethical Problem: Master Narrative

Map showing where natural disasters caused/agg...
Map showing where natural disasters caused/aggrevated by global warming will occur, and thus where environmental refugees will be created (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Story formulas shape, and sometimes distort, news coverage.

News networks do this because treating natural disasters like war gives them a compelling way to tell stories about storms like Harvey and Irma.

The problem is that war requires an enemy — some “bad guy” for people to fight against. And that need to find a bad guy has warped the focus of news coverage during natural disasters.

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