• LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Voters don’t know it because mainstream media is working overtime to suppress any good news for Biden and give megaphones to conservative traitors

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      4 months ago

      If it bleeds it leads. If it’s green, does it exist?

      We need a new phrase along the line if a tree falls in a forest. If it’s green and no one is there to care, does it exist?

    • dillekant@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s a combination of:

      • Voters who believe climate change is a hoax so trying to claim victory here might not give returns, so it’s better to do it quietly
      • Voters who believe climate change is real are going to be looking at this as not enough action given what the IPCC is saying

      So this spate of legislation is tepid for both sides, so it doesn’t really “make” news. As far as Fox & other right wing media, going into the detail of climate change just hurts their message because no one can look at detail and not immediately realise that there’s “something to this climate change mumbo jumbo”, so covering this is actually toxic for them. They are better off sticking to the top-level “it’s a hoax they want to kill your babies” or whatever.