I’m writing about a documentary film I saw the other day, and came across the “Propaganda Film” Wikipedia entry. Here’s how the section on “Climate Politics” currently reads:
Climate politicsOnly the latter two statements have citations, and what it would mean for them to support the assertions they accompany I have no idea.
The use of propaganda films continues to the present day. One of the most prolific genres of recent propaganda films is that covering alleged climate change and the associated political incentives to control anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) poses a somewhat sensational approach to climate change oftentimes relying on emotional appeals rather than scientific data.
The Age of Stupid (2009), although a fictitious story, may also be considered propaganda in that it projects an emotional and reactionary view of present-day environmental issues intended to bias the viewer's beliefs on such matters.
The BBC is known to have produced television documentaries of this character and style, which amount to propaganda films. One such is Frozen Planet (2011), the seventh section of which has been described as propaganda.
There’s also an ad for An Inconvenient Truth with the caption: “Fabricated images of chimneys discharging 'carbon pollution' often feature in this genre.”
According to the page history, that entire climate-change section was added by a single person, one "Anteaus," on the first and second of February 2012.
ReplyDeleteSomeone else posted a (lukewarm) criticism of the new section on Feb. 28. If enough attention is drawn to the recently added section, conceivably editors could decide to delete it.
Thanks, Rieux.
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