2023 was the hottest year on record, with a new billion+ dollar extreme weather event impacting the US every 2 weeks. Yet corporate broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox — scaled back their climate coverage by 25%. mediamatters.org/broadcast-netw…
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Overall, coverage decreased 25% from 2022 to 2023, from nearly 23 hours to a little more than 17 hours across 435 segments. Only 12% of climate segments on corporate broadcast news, or 52 out of 435, mentioned “fossil fuels" - the primary driver of human-caused climate change.