Last Year, America’s Major TV Networks Spent Just 50 Minutes On Climate Change. That’s It.

Last Year, America’s Major TV Networks Spent Just 50 Minutes On Climate Change. That’s It.

via The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF)
http://www.thegwpf.com

Major TV networks spent just 50 minutes on climate change — combined — last year.

That’s a dramatic, 66-percent drop in coverage from 2015 across evening and Sunday news programs airing on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox, according to a new study from Media Matters. ABC, for one, spent just six minutes on climate issues in 2016.

The networks can’t claim there was a shortage of important climate stories to cover. Hurricane Matthew, the Great Barrier Reef’s continued slow death, record-shattering heat, and the official beginning of the Paris climate deal all took place last year.

Interestingly, the coverage drop doesn’t seem to be an election-year phenomenon. In fact, climate coverage increased by 43 percent during the previous election cycle, between 2011 and 2012.

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via The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF) http://www.thegwpf.com

March 24, 2017 at 06:46AM

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