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There was this website page posted 10 months ago after Trump was elected, with the open REPLY area at the bottom of the page -- but nobody has posted any reply (nobody for 10 months).
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The two scientists pictured seemed to expect this would get widespread coverage but I should expect they're surprised no one has replied.
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Notice, they don't bother to mention what "time" the doomsday clock was moved from. (What "time" was it before they moved it?) Nor do they explain what method or criteria they use to decide what the new "time" will be. What have been their reasons for moving it in the past? Apparently this is the first time it was moved based primarily on political affiliations of the Bulletin scientists. How many of these scientists have a vested interest in so-called global warming or climate change politics?
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Source: http://www.mediastewards.org/news-emergency-requires-critical-media-literacy/

Posted on January 27, 2017




The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country.
They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

• Chief White House Strategist Stephen K. Bannon

Even if the [the press] successfully investigates the Trump government and publishes Watergate-style revelations,
those truths will emerge into an atmosphere that is organized to defeat them and ignore them and belittle them.

• NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen

. . . we need to rebuild media literacy in the United States because . . . trust has been so eroded.

• Huffington Post Editor Lydia Polgreen

On January 26, 2017, the “doomsday clock” established in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to inform the public that the earth faces imminent disaster was moved to two and half minutes until midnight, indicating the greatest peril facing humanity since 1953.

Explaining their decision in the New York Times, scientists Lawrence Kraus and David Titley wrote:

Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person.
But when that person is the new president of the United States, his words matter.

This recent discussion by respected journalists about the news emergency associated with Donald Trump becoming president amounts to a compelling case for citizens to learn more about media / news literacy as a response to this precipitous threat to our democracy.

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