Steven D., Booman - Scary: Networks Spent Only 32 Minutes on Perilous Climate Change in 2011
January 12, 2012
Gary Null in 2012 Elections, Media

 Over your GOP primary fix yet? How about something to read of real significance.

Did you know that the US Networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) devoted a grand total of 32 MINUTES and 14 news stories for all of 2011 to the single most important story of this century last year. It\'s true. Despite all the evidence, despite all the extreme weather events in the world, despite the study by a climate change skeptic(funded in part by the Koch Brothers) that concluded climate researchers had it right all along when they concluded that climate change was caused by all the giga-tons of greenhouse gases human beings are pumping into the atmosphere, 32 minutes of coverage on the US Television networks was all they deemed fit to broadcast. Take a look at how sharply their coverage declined (from Climate Progress) since 2007, the peak year of coverage about the world\'s climate:

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http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/761536/scary%3A_networks_spent_only_32_minutes_on_perilous_climate_change_in_2011
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