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Big media fails the public on environmental and public health matters

Economy & Ecology: The Inconvenient Truths The Global Calcuttan, September 21, 2014 “…..Manufactured Complacency The facilitators of our collective slide to environmental devastation is Big Media. Owned, globally by a few corporate houses, they are failing miserably in their job of informing the public. This is an essential function as democracy is premised on the notion that the electorate are informed. If problems are not given due attention in the media, politicians find them easy to be ignored.

Just as investors cannot take rational decisions on investing without proper information, how can the public take rational decisions about their future if information is withheld or they are simply distracted by noise?

In the last Indian general election, political parties ignored environmental issues, which is alarming considering the problems India faces:

The World Bank estimates that environmental degradation costs India 5.7 per cent of its annual gross domestic product, and causes a quarter of the country’s 1.6 million deaths among children each year.

September 26, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general