Navigating the Landscape of Media Coverage on Environmental Topics
Coverage of environmental issues - Readers often remember negative news more vividly and also pay more attention to it. Many media outlets publish negative news to grab more eyeballs. Newspapers place a high emphasis on news related to politics, entertainment, and sports. However, when it comes to reporting on environmental issues, it is given relatively little attention. Due to the low priority given to environmental matters, environmental issues are not discussed as often. But as situations are changing and the severe effects are visible of global warming, the media is turning its eye towards it. First-page coverage: According to several newspapers, very few of them have made environmental issues its main headline. The news are mostly related to extreme heatwaves in India. There are very few instances in which environmental issues will appear on the first page. The environm...