Climate Change Media Literacy Review

Advertising

100

What is the difference between traditional advertising and native advertising

Native ads are designed to look and feel like the outlet's journalistic materials

200

Give the 4 common disinformation tactics fossil fuel companies use.

1. Overstating efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

2. Exaggerating commitments to renewable energies

3. Shifting blame onto consumers 

4. False solutions: natural gas, carbon capture, biofuels

300

Which seven news outlets have in house ad studios that work with fossil fuel companies?

Bloomberg, Washington Post, Financial Times, New York Times, Economist, Reuters, Politico

400

A 2018 study found that only ____ out of _____ people could tell the difference between an advertorial and a real article

1 out of 10

500

This oil company was the first to use native advertising techniques in this newspaper

ExxonMobile; The New York Times

Oil and Gas

100

Give three privately owned oil companies and 3 nationally owned companies

Private: British Petroleum (BP), Chevron, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Devon Energy, Occidental, Western Gas Partners

National:

• Suadi Aramco (Saudia Arabia), National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) (Iran), Gazprom (Russia), China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) (China), Petrobras (Brasil), Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) (Mexico)

200

Give 2 oil cartels

• OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)

• OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries)

• GECF (Gas Exporting Countries Forum)

300

List 3 oil and gas affiliated organizations.

• International Energy Agency (IEA)

• World Petroleum Council (WPC)

• World energy Council (WEC)

• Gas Technology Institute (GTI)

• American Petroleum Institute (API)

• Oil and Gas UK

• L'Union Française des Industries Pétrolières

400

What is an oil cartel?

Collections of countries or companies that  create a formal agreements to "raise or fix prices and to reduce output in order to increase profits."

500

The Murdoch Family (Fox media empire) owns shares in which two oil companies?

Genie Energy and American Shale

Corporate Ownership

100

in 1983, 90% of US news media is owned by _____ companies. 

In 2026, 90% of US news media is owned by _____ companies.

1) 50

2) 6

200

This law reduced the FCC's ability to regulate media ownership

Telecommunications Act of 1996

300

Fox News, The New York Post, the Wall St Journal are all owned by the Australian _________ family

Murdoch

400

Sinclair Broadcasting owns ____ stations across ___ markets in the United States

185 stations, 85 markets

500

If the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros Discovery merger is approved, what media companies will be under Larry Ellison's control?

CNN, CBS News, HBO, TikTok, and more

Misc

100

What are the 5 filters of the media according to Chomsky and Herman?

Media Ownership, Advertising Dollars, Media Elite, Flack and a Common Enemy

200

Which voices are often left out of news coverage? give 3

Activists, protestors, local communities, Native communities, marginalized communities

300

How did the government of North Dakota attempt to use "flack" to silence Amy Goodman?

Putting out a warrant for her arrest, upgrading the charges to felonies

400

How did Juan Gonzalez get flack for his reporting after 9/11?

pressure from city officials, pushed to back pages, disparaged in op-eds as alarmist

500

Who owns the Washington Post?

Jeff Bezos (Amazon)