1. The document discusses biases that influence how the media reports on environmental issues. It focuses on how news values prioritize stories that stoke outrage over informing people about real risks and hazards. 2. Key biases identified include favoring alarming content over reassurance, extremes over moderate views, opinions over data, and outrage over informing people about environmental hazards. 3. These biases stem from news values that prefer dramatic, event-driven stories featuring conflict and human impact rather than more objective analysis of issues. Technical details are often overlooked in favor of simplistic narratives.

1. The inconvenient truth of environment reporting : Influence of news values on news stories By Dr Archana R Singh

2. Environment message delivery - Environment information explosion in 1970s - Mass media did not participate - By 1980s TV and print were most reliable media for environmental news - More a person depends on mass media, more he is influenced by it

5. 1. Amount of risk accorded to an environmental topic is unrelated to the seriousness of the risk in health terms 2. Within individual risk stories, most of the coverage isn't about risk. It is about blame, fear, anger and other non technical issues- about `outrage’ not `hazard’. 3. When technical information about risk is provided in news stories it has little impact on the audience. Sandman’s rules of environment coverage

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