If you're looking to the media to provide a unified narrative on anything, you're on a fools errand. Fundamentally, the ability to understand the world involve

If you're looking to the media to provide a unified narrative on anything, you're on a fools errand. Fundamentally, the ability to understand the world involved critical thinking. The types of things we see from global warming deniers tends to be a kind of faux critical thought. Find some nugget of information that supports your cause, cling to it, and definitely do not attempt to gain some sort of comprehensive understanding of the subject. This is understandable in one sense - the world is extremely complicated, and one cannot form a deep understanding of all the things they need to interact with. The problem is people compensate for this by bullshitting themselves into believing they have some sort of understanding of said complex topic without putting in any of the work required to actually understand it. I don't know what the real name for it, but talking about 'the media' has become sort of like a code smell to me. "The media" doesn't exist as a unified thing, and that's almost certainly a good thing. Instead of being a useful phrase, it becomes a wild card for assigning responsibility for whatever the source thinks is wrong with the world.