Dialogic Cinephilia - September 17, 2019

Key Findings:
On average, entertainment headlines get over three times more coverage than environmental stories for nationally prominent news organizations.
Most nationally focused news platforms have very high crime-to-environment ratios despite the fact that many of the crime stories are local in nature and can be classified as not being nationally relevant.
Crime-to-Environment Ratios - Morning network news: 69-to-1
Cable news: 9-to-1
Online news: 6-to-1
Evening network news: 5-to-1

Fox News had the highest percentage of headline environmental stories 3 (1.57%) among cable and network news outlets, even beating out PBS (1.43%); with CNN having the lowest (0.36%).
Local newspapers prioritize environmental coverage nearly three times more on the average compared to nationally focused news organizations (with the Daily Herald [WA] leading at 7.3%).

The Huffington Post was the environmental coverage leader for nationally focused news organizations with 3% of headlines (nearly 3x the national average).

Anecdotal evidence shows that independent news organizations are also prioritizing environmental coverage much more than mainstream news organizations; with some outlets averaging 15x more than the national average.
Source: Project for Improved Environmental Coverage (January 2013)

Barboza, Craigh. "The Strength of Street Knowledge."  Film Comment (September-October 2019) ["Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world"]

Hughes, Harriet Smith. "On Regarding Susan Sontag." Another Gaze (March 29, 2016)

Klein, Naomi. "What's In a Trump Straw?" The Intercept (September 15, 2019)

Koresky, Michael. "Lost and Found." Film Comment (September-October 2019) ["Pedro Almodóvar taps into both the anguish and the eroticism of memory in Pain and Glory, his most personal film yet"]

Thomas, Dana. "Fashion Kills." The American Scholar (September 6, 2019) ["How our hunger for more clothes is killing the environment and exploiting workers."]











“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Vintage Books, 1965)