Although it was nice to see in today's paper acknowledgement of "Oregon's fifth-hottest year since 1895," the visual framing of it minimized the impacts of heat and climate disruption.
The lede, too, was buried:
One worrying thing is that changes in climate [are] happening faster than we thought.
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| Water play trope, front page today |
Instead, the frame provided by the illustration centered on the delights of refreshing play in a water fountain, and the article was a little flat as if 117 degrees was no big deal, just a fascinating instance of a new record, and one we might enjoy breaking again.
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| Columbia Journalism Review via Twitter |
It's not just climate advocates who find the water play framing inapposite. Journalists question it also.
Previously here, see "With Water Play Trope, Paper Misses on Climate and Hottest Summer on Record" and "Too much Acceptance for 117 Degree Heat."
Other framing was possible. The summary might have linked more explicitly to Salem's Climate Action Plan, also.
Here are three bits from other papers.
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| A different frame: Fire and Flood Washington Post, September 2021 |
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| Washington Post, front page today "world in crisis" |
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| Oregonian, November 2021 |
2 comments:
The online version has a very different headline:
"'It's happening faster than we thought': 2021 was Oregon's fifth-warmest year since 1895"
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2022/01/13/2021-oregons-fifth-hottest-year-since-1895-continuing-warm-trend/9164721002/
That is an interesting divergence in the two presentations of the article! Thanks for the link.
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