De Laplante (2006:48) puts an interesting and legitimate question : "Can You Teach Environmental Philosophy
Without Being an Environmentalist?'' This question can find its answer if the hypothesis of Taylor is followed.
Taylor (2011) puts stress on the necessity to adopt the respect to nature as a final attitude. This stress should be
individually and socially comprehended. Turning the individual awareness about the environmental ethics into a
social phenomenon can only be achieved through the mass extensity of that message. The mass media provides the
environmental ethics with the mediation service.
Criticism pertaining to the fact that this approach is instrumental is legitimate to some extent. The function of the
news as an information proves that it also has an ontological potential as a means of education. The point of education is to provoke rational thoughts. Information is the object of this action. The news as a means of education
is autogenous. The news fulfills its function since the information presented is mostly taken as truth even if the news
is not made for educational purposes. It would not be utopian to foresee that it would give much faster and effective
results thanks to its extensity and accessibility when directly designed for this purpose.