The Australian, though the newspaper had the lowest percentage of negative coverage at 38 percent.
The Daily Telegraph was the worst, with 58 percent of its pieces on climate change being negative.
This was partially skewed by the high frequency of opinion and commentary pieces. About 62 percent weren’t based on research or fact.
The other two surveyed papers were the
Courier Mail and
Herald Sun. Others owned by News Corp were excluded but still were likely to include climate denying material due to the syndication of columnists like Andrew Bolt, who was responsible for a large chuck of climate denial in the four surveyed papers.