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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Even in a year as dire as 2020, climate coverage had a few notable highlights

12/29/20 10:32 AM EST
Mainstream broadcast media are barely covering the COVID-19 relief negotiations in Congress

12/15/20 1:34 PM EST
Corporate broadcast TV news mentioned climate change only once during its coverage of Hurricane Zeta

10/30/20 2:32 PM EDT
Climate change, fittingly, closed the final presidential debate of 2020

10/23/20 5:13 PM EDT
Right-wing media has shaped the debate on climate change for far too long

10/21/20 2:56 PM EDT
Corporate broadcast news coverage of Hurricane Delta was silent on climate change

10/15/20 12:04 PM EDT
News outlets must report on how President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee would help thwart climate action for decades to come

10/12/20 4:55 PM EDT
New reporting reveals Trump administration officials intentionally separated migrant families. Broadcast and cable news largely ignored it.

10/08/20 5:28 PM EDT
Climate change takes center stage during the vice presidential debate, but viewers still haven’t seen the discussion the issue demands

10/08/20 1:10 PM EDT
Responding to public pressure, media scrutiny, and reality, presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace actually asks about climate change

09/30/20 2:59 PM EDT
TV news ignored new report of sexual assault by Trump

09/28/20 2:26 PM EDT
Broadcast TV news segments about Hurricane Sally rarely mentioned climate change

09/28/20 1:37 PM EDT