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Is Al Jazeera America Going to Change the Way Networks Cover Climate Change?

24 points by chrismjelde 13y ago

hayksaakian 13y ago
there should be a filter against submissions that are questions but don't include "Ask HN" in the title I'm tired of all these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
- sarreph 13y ago
  I'm inclined to disagree with you, purely because 'Ask HN', in my opinion, should be reserved for text-based submissions where the generation of discussion is predicated more greatly on their purpose.
- jhartmann 13y ago
  This is a link to a post that was not crafted specifically for HN and submissions are often reset to the contents of the html title tag automatically even if the post is not given that text to begin with.
jmduke 13y ago
I don't really like Mother Jones, but the answer here seems pretty obvious -- unless Al Jazeera America takes a significant amount of viewership from big networks, they're not going to induce much change. And my limited experience with today's admittedly complex media environment leads me to the assumption that, no, spending thirty minutes covering climate change is not going to woo away a typical CNN watcher.
- a3n 13y ago
  But it my bring in someone fed up with and unengaged from The News. Some non-watchers may become watchers of Al Jazeera if they think there's finally something to watch.
  - jeremyjh 13y ago
    Yes I think its a pretty smart strategy actually. Maybe they can capture some of us who get all our news from the Daily Show and Reddit. I mean, not really. But I can see why they would want to try that.
McPants 13y ago
Why focus on climate change? Al Jazeera should be concerned about changing the way news networks discuss topics entirely, not just this isolated story. There is too much forced drama in television news, like the typical "Watch ---- news at 9 to see if your child will die from a toy you might have in your house". I haven't seen any of the new Al Jazeera programming but I did see their four minute promo trailer for the network and it looked to me like the same kind of stuff. The narrator to that teaser sounded like he was doing a michael bay trailer and the news anchors had plastic smiles like all the other news channels. That isn't to say I don't have hope though. Anything that is better than the methods which current networks employ is a step forward.
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WizzleKake 13y ago
No.
gyardley 13y ago
It's called 'Al Jazeera America'. No one who makes a point of watching it disagrees with them one iota on climate change - or for that matter, much of anything else.
SmokyBorbon 13y ago
Global warming is an obvious fraud. This article quotes Michael Mann, creator of "Mike's Nature Trick" where temperature records were manipulated to "hide the decline". Billions of taxpayer dollars are still being poured into companies like Solyndra that make their investors rich while going bankrupt because customers don't want their products. It's 2013. I cannot believe anybody still believes this bullshit.

24 points by chrismjelde 13y ago

there should be a filter against submissions that are questions but don't include "Ask HN" in the title I'm tired of all these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

sarreph 13y ago
I'm inclined to disagree with you, purely because 'Ask HN', in my opinion, should be reserved for text-based submissions where the generation of discussion is predicated more greatly on their purpose.
jhartmann 13y ago
This is a link to a post that was not crafted specifically for HN and submissions are often reset to the contents of the html title tag automatically even if the post is not given that text to begin with.

jmduke 13y ago

I don't really like Mother Jones, but the answer here seems pretty obvious -- unless Al Jazeera America takes a significant amount of viewership from big networks, they're not going to induce much change. And my limited experience with today's admittedly complex media environment leads me to the assumption that, no, spending thirty minutes covering climate change is not going to woo away a typical CNN watcher.

a3n 13y ago
But it my bring in someone fed up with and unengaged from The News. Some non-watchers may become watchers of Al Jazeera if they think there's finally something to watch.
- jeremyjh 13y ago
  Yes I think its a pretty smart strategy actually. Maybe they can capture some of us who get all our news from the Daily Show and Reddit. I mean, not really. But I can see why they would want to try that.

McPants 13y ago

Why focus on climate change? Al Jazeera should be concerned about changing the way news networks discuss topics entirely, not just this isolated story. There is too much forced drama in television news, like the typical "Watch ---- news at 9 to see if your child will die from a toy you might have in your house". I haven't seen any of the new Al Jazeera programming but I did see their four minute promo trailer for the network and it looked to me like the same kind of stuff. The narrator to that teaser sounded like he was doing a michael bay trailer and the news anchors had plastic smiles like all the other news channels. That isn't to say I don't have hope though. Anything that is better than the methods which current networks employ is a step forward.

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WizzleKake 13y ago

No.

gyardley 13y ago

It's called 'Al Jazeera America'. No one who makes a point of watching it disagrees with them one iota on climate change - or for that matter, much of anything else.

SmokyBorbon 13y ago

Global warming is an obvious fraud. This article quotes Michael Mann, creator of "Mike's Nature Trick" where temperature records were manipulated to "hide the decline". Billions of taxpayer dollars are still being poured into companies like Solyndra that make their investors rich while going bankrupt because customers don't want their products. It's 2013. I cannot believe anybody still believes this bullshit.