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For decades, the corporate media have paid pitifully little attention to the climate emergency, openly dismissing it as a “ratings killer.”
But last year, they may have hit rock bottom. Even as global temps soared, TV news coverage of the climate crisis actually went down by more than 50 percent.
Despite the devastating impacts of climate change ringing alarm bells all around us—deadly wildfires, devastating hurricanes and droughts, and the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef and the Amazon—coverage of the climate emergency made up just 0.4% of all news coverage on the corporate broadcast TV networks last year.
That’s less than one half of one percent.
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