Greta Thunberg wants to see a different coverage of the climate crisis.
A Swedish newspaper is now giving her the chance in December to change something as editor-in-chief.
The
climate crisis
should be reported bigger and more serious in the media, says Greta Thunberg.
In
Sweden
she will soon be able to work in an editorial office herself.
She has clear ideas of what a good
newspaper should
look like.
Stockholm - Now
Greta Thunberg
gets
the chance to turn her words into deeds.
The world-famous
climate and environmental activist
*
repeatedly criticizes the
fact that the media does not see and treat the climate problem as the great crisis that it is in their eyes and in the eyes of many activists.
Together with the supporters of
“Fridays for Future”
, she still regularly takes to the streets for her goals.
The national Swedish daily
Dagens Nyheter
was also exposed to criticism.
As early as mid-September, the newspaper invited Thunberg to talk about the climate crisis and the media, reports the paper.
Then the
editorial team had
the idea: Why not
let
Greta Thunberg be
editor-in-chief for
a day
and let her participate in the newspaper's decisions?
Greta Thunberg blir DN: s editor-in-chief - för en dag.https: //t.co/FL00PvnkCS pic.twitter.com/xJKFncc0N2
- Dagens Nyheter (@dagensnyheter) October 22, 2020
Greta Thunberg and the climate crisis: As editor-in-chief, she wants to see more background reports
No sooner said than done: editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski wrote to her and the young climate campaigner agreed.
“The most frequent criticism from our readers in the past year was that we don't take the climate seriously enough,” the editor-in-chief explains the move.
He is excited to see what the
collaboration will
bring.
They wanted to report very openly about the action and its processes, so as not to give rise to allegations that
question
the
independence of
the newspaper.
So Greta Thunberg * will design an
issue
as editor-in-chief of
Dagens Nyheter
in December
.
As the newspaper quotes itself, Thunberg hopes to be able to influence media like the Swedish newspaper in the long term.
But what does an ideal newspaper look like from your point of view?
“I think there are not so many
opinions
and descriptions of disasters, but many reviews that show what
reality
looks like where we are right now and explain the climate crisis in depth.”
Interviews
with
researchers
,
for example,
are important to her.
Together with Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg is fighting for more awareness of the climate
Due to the corona pandemic, it was quiet on the streets about "Fridays for Future" for a long time.
For a long time, they mainly relocated their protests to the
Internet
.
Nevertheless, they continued to put pressure on the
world's
heads of government
to take the climate crisis at least as much as the current
corona crisis
.
She also met Angela Merkel for this, as Germany is currently holding the EU Council Presidency.
Greta Thunberg is currently hoping for an unexpected turnaround in the EU agricultural payments in the European Parliament.
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
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