http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5702/1686.full
http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/Journalistic-Balance-as-Global-Warming-Bias/
Despite there being a scientific consensus on global warming with it's denial among the scientific community virtually nonexistent (literally 0% of peer reviewed scientific articles have denied the effects of global warming), the slightly smaller half of Americans still deny that global climate change is real. According to a FAIR study, about 53% of articles from the popular press were skeptical of the effects of global warming taken from a 14-year period of time.
Is media bias the reason that so many Americans are in denial of science?
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inb4deniers. I bet that the CEOs of oil, gas and coal companies are all good friends with people like Rupert Murdoch.