http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/10166/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-numbers/188-drought-stories-not-drop-concern-environmentalist-role <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Networks focus on drought and its impact, but ignore environmental regulations complicating crisis. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/julia-seymour">Julia A. Seymour</a> </div> </div> </div> <p dir="ltr">Climate change is “damn serious,” according to California Gov. Jerry Brown, who has repeatedly blamed it for the state’s four-year drought.</p><p dir="ltr">Even without “definitive evidence” to back that up the network news media repeated it. What the networks refused to repeat was criticism about environmental regulations and other government failures. ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows aired 188 drought stories and completely ignored environmental regulations that have worsened the crisis by sending massive quantities of water out to sea.</p><div class='signature'><p>— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/BizMediaJulia" target="_blank">Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.</a></p></div><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-numbers/188-drought-stories-not-drop-concern-environmentalist-role" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Bias by the Numbers MRC Business Climate Change Environment Government Media Agriculture American Spectator California California drought Climate Change Delta smelt desalination desert diverting water drought Endangered Species Environmentalism fish Global Warming Gov. Jerry Brown green agenda mega-drought Regulations reservoirs saving fish Wall Street Journal water Wed, 20 May 2015 14:19:27 +0000 julia.seymour 48947 at http://archive2.mrc.org