Broadcast Networks | Media Matters for America

Media Matters regularly monitors the major national broadcast networks that provide television news: ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.

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5 Ways the U.S. media should cover the UN’s seminal climate report

08/04/21 12:45 PM EDT
Broadcast and cable TV news shows mentioned climate change in a combined 36% of wildfire segments

08/04/21 9:31 AM EDT
Broadcast and cable news coverage of the latest record-breaking heat wave in the West mentioned climate change but largely ignored its effects on vulnerable populations

07/14/21 2:50 PM EDT
Cable news programs lag behind their broadcast news counterparts in linking climate change to the Pacific Northwest heat wave

06/28/21 4:39 PM EDT
Broadcast TV news shows link Western heat wave and drought to climate change in 27% of segments

06/24/21 1:18 PM EDT
How broadcast TV news covered environmental justice over the past four years

05/06/21 11:10 AM EDT
Buoyed by Biden’s climate summit, broadcast and cable TV networks provided strong Earth Day coverage

04/28/21 12:24 PM EDT
In 2020, broadcast TV networks mentioned climate solutions in less than 30% of overall climate change coverage

04/13/21 12:01 PM EDT
Most TV news networks failed to interview any trans people in coverage of Arkansas’ ban on medical care for trans youth

04/09/21 2:25 PM EDT
How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2020

03/10/21 11:00 AM EST
Broadcast and cable TV news spent only 54 minutes covering anti-trans violence in 2020

02/17/21 1:42 PM EST
Network and cable news largely ignore wave of anti-Asian violence

02/11/21 11:31 AM EST