What is 32 Minutes?
What is 32 Minutes?
by Steven D
Wed Jan 11th, 2012 at 10:21:33 AM EST
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:
Heck, I've seen way more commercials from BP, Exxon and other oil and gas companies extolling the wonders of natural gas produced by hydrofracking and and gasoline refined from the oil in from Canadian Tar Sands than I've seen coverage about climate change on major network television. Everyday another commercial pops up funded by the fossil fuel industry. Not hard to figure out who is paying the bills for the bread and circuses television industry. Still, 32 MINUTES of coverage? That's all? Our world's climate is headed for a full on boil, the predictions the climate models made regarding droughts, extreme precipitation events, wildfires, heat waves, famines, etc. are coming true (if anything they were too conservative) and that's it? Thirty-two effing minutes?
Not that the major print media in America is doing a whole lot better.
more...
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/1/11/10138/4301
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