In America’s 2016 election year, mainstream media virtually ignored climate change, except for airing Trump’s climate denial

SAD! Major TV networks spent just 50 minutes on climate change — combined — last year. Grist, 23 Mar 17

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…..

Other insights from the study:

Together, the networks aired five segments of climate science denial from Trump and his team — without rebuttal.
No network covered climate change’s impact on national security or the economy.
And none of them aired a single segment on the effect a Trump or Clinton presidency would have on the climate — until after the election.

Great to know that TV news is taking the defining issue of our time so seriously. http://grist.org/briefly/major-tv-networks-spent-just-50-minutes-on-climate-change-combined-last-year/

March 25, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized

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