But the company’s decision to widen the scope of its weather coverage, even just on streaming platforms, could be bad for everyone. The silver lining is that Fox’s new network is relegated to streaming and will likely struggle to compete with the Weather Channel Fox’s core demographic-old people-is, moreover, still locked to traditional TV. Fox News covers extreme weather events as weather-isolated, extreme examples-rather than as climate it’s not hard to imagine how that myopic approach could influence its 24-hour weather coverage. ( Seriously! ) Fox routinely suggests that journalists are overstating the danger of climate change, as it did in a recent segment about climate coverage on CNN. Recently, Tucker Carlson suggested that climate scientists had an ulterior motive: shrinking your children. “We do not deny climate change, we’re not deniers.”īut Murdoch’s outlets, Fox very much included, regularly entertain climate deniers and constantly question climate science. “Our board is open to any discussions, but James … he claimed that our papers had covered the bushfires in Australia without discussing climate change,” Rupert Murdoch told his company’s shareholders last fall.

James Murdoch, Rupert’s younger son, resigned from News Corp’s board of directors the split was believed to have been prompted by concerns about coverage of climate change, particularly in Australia, which had recently been devastated by wildfires. The Murdoch empire’s coverage of climate change has played no small role in the fracturing of the Murdoch family. A 2019 Pew study found that “Republicans who watch Fox News are more than twice as likely to deny human-caused climate change than Republican non-viewers, and 62 percent of Republicans watch Fox News.” Pew’s data also “suggests that the presence of Fox News and other conservative media outlets may be the primary explanation for why climate denial is more prevalent in the United States than in other developed countries.” That data mirrored the findings of a 2013 study, which noted that consuming Fox News and Rush Limbaugh made Americans significantly less likely to trust scientists or believe in climate change. The role of Fox News in promoting climate denial has been well established for years.

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