Heat is Political. Cover It That Way.
Heat is Political. Cover It That Way.
Top Story: Heat is Political. Cover it That Way
It’s hot out there.
Devastating heat waves have hit the country, impacting the health and well-being of both people and their environs.
This isn’t just an environmental story.
It’s also a story about those who are being hurt by the climate crisis and those in power who are making the climate crisis worse.
In other words, it’s political.
Now is the time to write stories about where the elected official — and candidates— you cover stand on this global emergency.
Are they helping?
Are they hurting?
Are they spreading disinformation?
Everyone should know who in their communities is and is not committed to solving this real problem.
In other words:
With heat top of mind, hold officials on your beat accountable for not addressing the suffering of tens of millions of Americans.
Tips on Covering Climate Deniers, the Heat Wave, and Your Beat
Write about folks who routinely spread misinformation about global warming, even as their communities suffer(ed).
Like THIS.
Don’t be afraid to give examples of why governing as a climate denier during a heat wave is so dangerous, and so absurd.
Like THIS.
Make the link between the current heat wave and global warming.
Like THIS.
Write about Project 2025 and what it will mean to people in your community when heat waves hit.
Like THIS.
And THIS.
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David Armiak, research director for the Center for Media and Democracy
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Maurice Cunningham, retired associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and author of Dark Money and The Politics of School Privatization.
Reed Gallen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project
Isaac Kamola, associate professor of political science at Trinity College, founder of Faculty First Responders and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe distinguished professor of history and public policy at Duke University and author of Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Ralph Wilson, founder of the Corporate Genome Project and co-author of Free Speech and Koch Money, Manufacturing a Campus Culture War
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