As we argue in the Nisbet & Mooney Framing Science thesis, infotainment dominates science as a news narrative. Despite record amounts of media attention, climate change still routinely falls short of a top news agenda item, making it exceedingly difficult to engage a broader American audience by way of traditional science communication efforts.
In my latest blog entry at Framing Science, I detail the latest from the Pew Media Index, which finds that while climate change failed to crack the top 10 issues covered by the media during the first quarter of 2007, Anna Nicole Smith did quite well. In fact, at Fox News, coverage of the former Playboy model's death was the second most covered issued during the first three months of 2007, accounting for an astounding 10% of total news time.
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