Something I always tell you:
Through content analysis of US prestige press—meaning the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal—this paper focuses on
the norm of balanced reporting, and shows that the prestige press's adherence to balance actually
leads to biased coverage of both anthropogenic contributions to global warming and resultant action.
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
In other words, giving equal treatment to misinformation is bias itself.
More:
Subjects had a poor appreciation of the facts that (1) if significant global warming occurs, it will be primarily the result of an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, and (2) the single most important source of additional carbon dioxide is the combustion of fossil fuels, most notably coal and oil. In addition, their understanding of the climate issue was encumbered with secondary, irrelevant, and incorrect beliefs. Of these, the two most critical are confusion with the problems of stratospheric ozone and difficulty in differentiating between causes and actions specific to climate and more general good environmental practice.
What Do People Know About Global Climate Change? 2. Survey Studies of Educated Laypeople - Read - 2006 - Risk Analysis - Wiley Online Library
47 Social Problems 2000 Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement's Counter-Claims
