Climate change apparently isn't discussed much in a lot of broadcast news production meetings.
On Monday, Media Matters released its annual findings of how often the nightly news programs and Sunday morning political shows on ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, as well as Fox News' Fox News Sunday, covered climate change in 2018. The short answer? Not a lot.
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