Environmental News Rare on Front Page of NY Times or WS Journal. Posted by Jeremy Hance, Mongabay.com, May 9, 2008. "The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a study examining the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal from December 13, [2007] through March 13, 2008. The report found that both [papers] essentially buried environmental stories, as environmental news for both papers made up only 1% of the total front page. The New York Times focused primarily on domestic elections and politics with more than one in four front page stories on these issues: 26.5% to be exact. The Wall Street Journal focused mostly on foreign news at 25.4%. Both... had more front-page stories on sports/entertainment/lifestyles than on the environment... the lack of... [which] perhaps contributes to why Americans view environmental issues... as less important than that of Australians and Chinese [who, respectively,] in a recent poll... named the environment their [first and]... fourth highest concern. An ABC News/Wall Street Journal [poll] taken in March placed the environment as number 7 out of 8 issues for Americans. However the poll was unique, since most polls in America don't include the environment as an option."
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