News network climate reporting soared in 2017 thanks to Trump

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote]n 2016, US TV network news coverage of climate change plummeted. News coverage was focused on the presidential election, but the corporate broadcast networks didn’t air a single segment informing viewers how a win by Trump or Hillary Clinton could affect climate change or climate policy. That followed a slight drop in news coverage of climate change in 2015, despite that year being full of critical events like the Paris climate accords, Clean Power Plan, and record-breaking heat.

The good news is that the annual analysis done by Media Matters for America found that in 2017, network news coverage of climate change soared.
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[url]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/feb/15/news-network-climate-reporting-soared-in-2017-thanks-to-trump[/url]

[Sableye]

no news network asked him a damn thing about climate change or any GOP candidate for that matter, just jobs jobs jerbs jobs.

it was completely irresponsible of them

[Big Dumb Patriot]

[QUOTE=Sableye;53138511]no news network asked him a damn thing about climate change or any GOP candidate for that matter, just jobs jobs jerbs jobs.

it was completely irresponsible of them[/QUOTE]

Completely agreed. Climate change is poised to create the greatest humanitarian disaster in modern history. Trump may think it's a Chinese Hoax™, but the failure of the media to demand he make his position clear for everybody in a national debate or interview is damn near malpractice.

[Mr. Someguy]

Throughout the debates climate change wasn't even mentioned, and now suddenly everyone cares. Fucking idiots, all of 'em. If they cared so much, they should have made it a key issue during the election.

[Raidyr]

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;53138927]Throughout the debates climate change wasn't even mentioned, and now suddenly everyone cares. Fucking idiots, all of 'em. If they cared so much, they should have made it a key issue during the election.[/QUOTE]

I actually tried to check if this was real because I didn't believe it, but climate change wasn't brought up by a moderator once during the three presidential debates or during the vice presidential debate. Clinton talked about it for a few minutes during the second debate on a question about energy policy but Trump basically never mentioned it.