An Analysis Of The Calgary Herald

In his essay titled “Climate of Denial”, Al Gore, a well known environmental advocate and former vice president, verifies the reality of climate change and global warming. The piece is an attack on corrupt companies and news outlets that attempt to persuade the public that global warming is not a critical issue. Gore also earnestly conveys our environment’s current state and offers possible solutions that would increase awareness about global warming and begin to revert the planet back to a healthier, more sustainable state. The overarching purpose of Gore’s work is to call attention to the widespread climate change that is occurring. However, he also focuses on the corruption and bias within the media, and their attempts to conceal the truth about global warming. Writing to those who are conflicted about who to believe, he makes a valid argument that defends the beliefs of he and his fellow activists and encourages others to become more active in the climate change issue.

This could apply to Enbridge through their choice to engage with Native American advocates but weakening the arguments by maintaining control over the medium and format of that engagement. While this isn’t an equitable strategy, nor one that would solve the controversy, it elucidates the problem for Enbridge on both sides. By refusing to engage with dissent, Enbridge weakens their own argument for the pipeline while strengthening the unity and potency of the opposition’s arguments. Finally, Phaedra Pezzulo examines how Native American advocates and environmental justice advocates alike subvert existing power structures to assert their arguments. In reference to the emergence of the Environmental Justice Movement within Warren County, NC, Pezzulo cites the theory of critical interruptions. Essentially, through the case study of corporations discarding toxic waste in a low-income mostly black community, this article observes the importance of narratives within environmental discourse. Pezzulo identifies the importance of narratives constructed by either the Environmental Justice movement as a whole or of the state

I found Joanne’s political cartoon extremely relevant to current events and policy debates. The cartoon depicts a sheriff and a Texan standing in chest-deep water. In the background are farm animals huddled on the top of a roof in order to prevent drowning, and a large billboard allowing the audience to know the setting is in “TEXAS”. However, the most vital part of the cartoon is the sheriff’s line above him, “It’s not global warming. This water’s cold,” which parallels the steady position of the Republican party on climate change. Even when the water is about to flood both individuals, the Texas sheriff is solid in his claim against global warming and will not budge.

Horton, Benjamin P. “Commentary: Climate Change Needs Better Storytelling to Address Severe Threats Read More at Https://Www.channelnewsasia.com/News/Singapore/Climate-Change-Global-Warming-Communication-Better-Storytelling-10028864.” Channel NewsAsia, 11 Mar. 2018,

Today, 89% of Canadian magazine content is foreign, and the majority of that foreign content is American (SUNY-LEVIN Institute). Since the 1920’s, the Canadian government has taken measures to protect Canadian culture and their magazine industry. Starting first with tariffs in the 20’s, they eventually moved to prohibition of split-run editions of magazines that were published external to the country in 1965 (SUNY-LEVIN Institute). Globalization has exasperated the foreign takeover of the Canadian magazine industry. Before 1999, a magazine was defined as domestic if it was printed in Canada. What this meant, was that publications written in other countries could send their content to a Canadian

Global warming, or– the more accurate term presently– climate change, is increasing wielded as an ill-suited weapon to discourage companies and everyday people from living in ways that are most convenient to them. It is no surprise, consequently, most Canadians do not conform to the notion of sustainability. Thinking of one’s carbon footprint may cross one’s mind for a moment or two, before the thought is chased away by more relevant concepts such as eliminating effort, saving time, having convenience and of course, gaining profit in a society that encourages consumerism. In other words, people in our modern society like to “live in the moment” as many of the older generation may say; we apparently give no thought to the future. But is the

The problem that the pro- global warming theorists have created is that of social standing and little else. While there may be scientific backing to support some of the theory, the media presents the problem with great sensationalism. Global warming and energy conservation has thus become a trend and losses some of its validity through this. The scare tactics used by the media to “promote awareness” are just that, a linguistic ploy to gain favor.

The littler of the two fundamental daily papers in Massachusetts' South Coast, The Herald News is an every day daily paper situated in Fall River, Massachusetts. Its scope range incorporates Fall River and the adjacent towns of Dighton, Freetown, Somerset, Swansea and Westport, Massachusetts; and Little Compton and Tiverton, Rhode Island.

Is the world really paying attention to global warming? And what is the media doing about it? Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in “What Should I Worry About?” and Bill McKibben in “A Moral Atmosphere” give us reasons to people not acting on climate change and what we are not really paying attention. Although many people believe they are helping out when it comes to global warming this isn't helping with anything. Levitt, Dubner and McKibben believe people must take action to actually make a difference.

The scientific consensus about the bad effects of cigarettes on human health emerged decades before the social consensus did. Thus, the same is to be expected about the climate change issue. Dr. Hoffman stated that, “scientific knowledge is never socially or politically inert particularly when it prompts changes in people beliefs or actions”. However, it is important to understand that climate change skepticism will not be overcome by a forceful presentation of the science. The source of a climate change messages is very important, if the audience trust the communicator, they are more likely to trust their arguments. This goes along the impacts of Democratic and Republican’s views on climate change, which can be seen as somewhat

The newspaper was invented to control and standardize information. It allowed rumours to be separated from facts and provided hard evidence. The evolution of the newspaper caused fewer companies to be in charge of press, resulting in biased information that lacked depth. The modern Canadian newspaper industry is only owned by a few companies. This is caused by absent alternative funding which influences market concentration, biased news coverage, and many other negative effects. The news being published lacks diversity and becomes increasingly uniform. Absent funding causes barriers to be broken between business and news, creating an industry that is profit driven. This desire for profit creates monopolies and furthers the issue of biased media. It also heightens competition between journalists and causes downsizing of newsrooms. Absent alternative funding for the Canadian newspaper industry leads to concentration of ownership and influences news coverage to lack diversity.

Discourse is a 'shared way of apprehending the world ' (Dryzek, 1997). It is understood as ‘the ensemble of ideas, concepts and categories through which meaning is given to social and physical realities, and which is produced and reproduced through an identifiable set of practices’ (Hajer, 2006: 67). Discourse favors certain description of reality and empowers certain policy tools while marginalizing others (Litfin, 1994). Discourses frame the policy debates, limit what are considered ‘reasonable’ options and inform policy-making process (Gregorio et al, 2014). Discourses represent the dominant representatives, understandings and knowledge regimes present in governance debate and they are deeply embedded in the formation of knowledge. The discourses are produced based on the perception and role of the actors (Keller, 2011). Different discourses promote specific conceptualization of environmental problem including the causes of the problems and on their solutions. For instance, discourse on forests seeing as important carbon sink could be different from seeing forest as source of local livelihoods or source of biodiversity. Therefore it is crucial to understand the different construction of meaning by different actors.

The problem is that there isn’t any public engagement on the issue of climate change because how I see it is that these days’ people are more worried about how many people have a job rather than how varying weather patterns and chemicals that they are burning in the air can ruin the climate. To me, I see that there is different perceptions on how people view the climate may change in the future. There are different issues that the administration has been framing such as improving the job situation in the United States because jobs from the Year 2008-2009 had a 21+ increase rather than reducing influence from fellow lobbyists which saw a decline of -3. As we see it now, people use frames as a way of putting a specific thought that they may have into motion. On a daily basis, people may resort to framing as a way to discuss varying topics

“In one discourse we may find benign an public-spirited expert administrators. Another discourse might portray the same people as selfish bureaucrats. Still others might ignore the presence of government officials altogether. Many other kinds of agents and motives put in appearances. They include enlightened elites, rational consumers, ignorant and shortsighted populations, virtualizes, rational consumers, ignorant and shortsighted populations, virtuous ordinary citizens, a Gaia that may be tough and forgiving or fragile and punishing, among others(Dryzek).” Environmental discourses are a social navigation that mediates knowledge by building a meaning through re-occurring patterns within symbolic communication. They help guide society’s understanding of how the world operates around them. In order to understand certain discourses, one must analyze how symbols and language shape social constructs and behaviors. “Discourses construct meanings and relationships, helping define common sense and legitimate knowledge. Each discourse rests on assumptions, judgments, and contentions that provide the basic terms of analysis, debates, agreements, and disagreements(Dryzek).” One also must understand their historical context and institutional encasements in order to fully comprehend the discourse. All discourses have key tropes, metaphors, symbols, and genres that help make up its properties. For example, spaceships (the idea of “spaceship Earth”), “the tragedy of the commons”, “war

If an explanation was given, it omitted the fact that policies are being put into place to prevent the calamitous effects of global warming. Coverage on the economic costs of climate change adaptation strategies heavily outweighed writing on the environmental harms that would arise out of non-action. By way of illustration, an article about oil production reads “TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline and Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway project heading west, have been bogged down by environmental concerns […] and the lack of pipelines is a further drag on investment intentions in the Canadian oil patch (Hussain 2015, April 11). Hussain’s article refrains from explaining why environmentalists are having concerns. Within the news reporting discourse, one would reasonably expect objective and detailed coverage but in this instance, the author’s choice of words flagrantly drops the plethora of reasons why environmentalists would be concerned with the actions of big oil. Another headline reads, “There may be hope for new pipelines after all” (Thomson 2015, October 15). While these examples may not appear erroneous on the surface, upon close inspection on the phrasing level, both ‘bogged down’ and ‘drag’ carry negative connotations that frame the protection of the environment as a barrier