Media struggles to separate politics from climate story, hurting coverage, say experts

'We've never really been in a time where reporting the truth of an issue has made us seem biased to so many,' said journalism professor Sean Holman, who penned an open letter calling on journalists to better report on climate change in May.
Children gathered on Parliament Hill in May to protest the government's inaction on climate change, the politicization of which is creating real 'challenges' for reporters, according to journalists.
Many reporters are struggling to disentangle politics from the facts around climate change in their coverage, compromising their ability to serve in the public interest, say veteran journalists. The politicization of climate change is "making journalists hesitant to cover this issue as aggressively...

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