newspapers and climate change

Newspapers are one of the most commonly used sources of information where people chose to find out about important information about the world and its isses of the day or past events. However the newpapers are not always reliable and accurate as most people tend to believe. They are points of view from the reporter on the subject that they are reporting, and this means that it is a biased view on the report of the event. There are two main types of newpapers that we can buy tabliods and and broadsheets, although the broadsheets tend to be a more reliable source of information as they have a more soffisicated target audience and therefore the information on the topic is less biased and more factual but still contains some element of bias within them.

For example climate change is one of the most commonly talked about topic each year as it is the biggest issue that we face. Some of the articles on climate change are not necessarily biased and false information but can sometimes have a negative influence to attract the audience to read the topic and to show the extent and prove that we need to something about climate change now while we still can befor it is too late. This seems to be the case with more tabliods as they provide a more extreme approach to the issues at hand, whereas the broadsheets offer a more suttle but influencial approach. So sometimes it is not necessarily negative information its is "a wake-up call" to alert the public that it is about time we started to consider new and/or alternative ways of living such as switching from ordinary lightbulbs to energy saving, recycling, switching off our televisions sets off of standby, etc. This was established by a man called Maxwell Boykoff who discovered that the tabiods have a ten times greater effect of climate change over the broadsheets which is why people say that the sources of information are negative and biased.

However the main idea of the newspapers are to deliver the information to the public, where biased and extremely opinionated some articles may be, but it is how the reader portrays the information and how they intend to do something about it and whether they should have the duty to save their home on their planet and their grandchildrens home too in the future, because it may not be affecting them at that moment in time but it does not rule out the fact of future generations standards of living in their world. They need to make this world that they are living as sustainable as they can possibly make it to ensure that the world that our future generations can have a safe and suitable standard of life when it is their turn to do something about their world. Nowadays we are trying to begin a way of life to actually consider sustainable delvelopment for us and those in the future, however to have a suitable sustainable world we can not, once we have reached our perception of sustainablility, just stop we have to keep managing the way we live to keep the world as clean and harmfree as we can keep it.

Although both the tabliods and broadsheet newspapers have the same aims and they are to show and alert the public that they need to consider changing the ways in which they live aswell as how they personally and as a general population can reduce the impacts that they create on the environment.