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Climate change reporting for sale?

What sway do the big businesses changing our climate have over the journalists reporting on them?

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  Adam Ramsay, public domain

Can big polluters buy positive coverage in the British press, despite their disastrous impacts on our environment? We’re going to find out…

We know that the media has huge influence over our politics. We also know that most journalism is dependent, more than ever, on revenues from corporate advertising. If there were any doubts that the latter sometimes influences the former, then the explosive resignation of The Telegraph’s Chief Political Commentator Peter Oborne on openDemocracy earlier this year ended them.