<div dir="ltr">I am simply forwarding the content below as I received it:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div class="gmail_quote">--------------------------------------<br><u></u>
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<strong><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/CNN_climate?t=1&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">Tell CNN: Stop the climate negligence. Show climate coverage, not fossil fuel ads.</a></strong>
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<p><em>Petition to CNN:</em>
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<strong>"Stop the climate negligence. Inform viewers with comprehensive coverage on the urgent issue of climate change, and stop airing ads from organizations that deny science and obstruct climate action."</strong></p>
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<p>Dear Ted,</p>
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<p>Last year was the hottest year on record, smashing the global record set <em>just the year before</em> in 2014. And by April of this year, scientists were <em>already declaring</em> that 2016 will be even hotter.<sup>1</sup> </p>
<p>That should be news, right? The type of story that news operations — fulfilling their public duty to contribute to an informed populace — would want to cover? </p>
<p><strong>Not if you are CNN, apparently. A new study by Media Matters reveals CNN actually airs far more <em>fossil fuel advertisements</em> than coverage of climate change - by a margin of 5-to-1!</strong><sup>2</sup> </p>
<p>That is totally unacceptable. CNN has come under scrutiny recently for it’s lack of substantive news coverage. Now is the time to pressure CNN to halt its climate negligence. </p>
<p><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/CNN_climate?t=4&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank"><strong>Tell CNN: Stop the climate negligence. Inform viewers with comprehensive coverage of climate change, and stop running ads for organizations that deny science.</strong> </a> </p>
<p>According to the study, in one week following the announcement that 2015 was confirmed as the hottest year on record by NASA, CNN aired exactly 57 seconds of climate coverage — <strong>compared with more than 12.5 minutes of ads from the American Petroleum Institute.</strong> And that analysis doesn’t even include dozens of ads for Koch Industries which “were not energy-focused but did serve to boost the image of the oil billionaire Koch brothers’ primary corporation.”<sup>3</sup></p>
<p><strong>Not only is CNN virtually silent on informing the public about the damage being caused by climate change, it is giving a platform to — and legitimizing — the voice of notorious climate deniers</strong> like the American Petroleum Institute and the Kochs, who have actively lobbied against climate action and promoted fraudulent doubt of climate change.<sup>4</sup> </p>
<p><strong>Does CNN simply think climate change is not important? Or are they allowing advertising dollars to actively suppress their climate coverage?</strong> </p>
<p>Either way their level of coverage of climate change — the most pressing issue facing all of humanity — should be an embarrassment for the organization whose title is "The Cable News Network." And now is the time to call the organization out. </p>
<p><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/sign/CNN_climate?t=5&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank"><strong>Tell CNN: Stop the climate negligence. Inform viewers with comprehensive coverage of climate change, and stop running ads for organizations that deny science.</strong></a> </p>
<p>Thanks for speaking out. </p>
<p>Elijah Zarlin, Director of Climate Campaigns<br>
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=6&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">CREDO Action from Working Assets</a>
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<li>"<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/11746?t=8&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">We Already Know 2016 Will Be the Warmest Year on Record—and It’s Only April</a>," Slate, 4/20/16</li>
<li>"<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/11747?t=9&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">CNN Is More Focused On Running Fossil Fuel Ads Than It Is On Covering Major Climate Stories</a>," Think Progress, 4/26/16</li>
<li>"<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/11748?t=10&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">STUDY: CNN Viewers See Far More Fossil Fuel Advertising Than Climate Change Reporting</a>," Media Matters, 4/25/16</li>
<li>"<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/11749?t=11&akid=18094.4637676.96Iq0e" target="_blank">Meet The Climate Denial Machine</a>," Media Matters, 11/28/2012</li>
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