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How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2019
Ted MacDonald, Media Matters

The volume of climate change coverage on the corporate broadcast nightly and Sunday morning news shows increased 68% from 2018 to 2019. Much of this increase was driven by CBS. New climate legislation, activism, and climate as a top-tier issue in the Democratic primary were major drivers of coverage. Despite this increase, climate coverage as a whole still made up only 0.7% of overall corporate broadcast nightly and Sunday morning news shows in 2019, and the quality of the coverage was generally shallow. And people of color were massively underrepresented in climate coverage -- making up only 10% of TV show guests.