National broadcast TV news mentioned climate change in less than 4 percent of California wildfire coverage
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Meliss Joskow / Media Matters This month´s catastrophic California wildfires garnered significant media coverage, with major national news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC airing more than 100 segments about the unfolding disasters. But Media Matters found that just 3.7 percent of those segments mentioned the link between climate change and worsening wildfires. That`s a minuscule improvement over their coverage of Western wildfires this summer, when the networks incorporated climate change into less than 2 percent of their segments. On the local level, TV news programs on California stations included discussion of climate change in numerous segments about the ongoing wildfires. News shows on...