Chronotope’s Twitter Archive—№ 107,553

The problem with all systematic issues, especially climate change, is it is easier for media to frame talking about it in terms of what individuals can do because talking about the collective action required for actual solutions means talking policy and to editors feels like bias
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 5 Retweets ❤️ 12 Favorites 2019 Jul 24 Mood 0

…in reply to @Chronotope
But climate change isn't a political issue, it's an existential threat, and like an oncoming storm, or a rampaging plague needs to be dealt with what we have, in the past, framed as advocacy. But in reality is dealing with and reporting on the facts.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 6 Favorites 2019 Jul 24 Mood -3 🙁

…in reply to @Chronotope
We aren't going to make it if solutions are framed as: 'stay inside this week, drink plenty of water, do more personal recycling, and carry your own straw'
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 6 Favorites 2019 Jul 24 Mood +1 🙂

…in reply to @Chronotope
"Experts say that almost half the world’s population will be exposed to potentially deadly temperatures for 20 days a year by 2100." People alive today will be killed by heat tomorrow. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/24/britain-heat-soaring-temperatures-architecture-green-space?__twitter_impression=true
On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2019 Jul 24 Mood -6 🙁

…in reply to @Chronotope
This isn't the only systematic issue that needs to be handled more radically as a systems vs individual issue in coverage. No one is going to pay subscriptions or be interesting to advertisers if economic inequality continues to widen to the point where all readers are poor.
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 2 Favorites 2019 Jul 24 Mood -2 🙁

…in reply to @Chronotope
The thing people forget about advertising & subscription models is how they put papers in a virtuous circle w/readers, the more a paper uplifted its audience, the more they could afford a subscription or were viable for big ad sales. Drive by user targeting makes it harder to see
Permalink On twitter.com ❤️ 1 Favorite 2019 Jul 24 Mood +2 🙂

…in reply to @Chronotope
Your audience being driven into poverty, deported, killed by heat, or racial, anti-LGBTQ, mysoginist, religious or other systematic violence is not only worthy of coverage on a systems level but as much an existential threat to journalism as any anti-press thing a Trump ally says
Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 3 Retweets ❤️ 4 Favorites 2019 Jul 24 Mood -7 🙁

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