CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Hat Tip to The Dish

Media Matters' Jill Fitzsmmons (h/t Andrew Sullivan) posts research that counted only 12 stories on global warming on the three nightly newscasts in 2012. By contrast, Tyndall Report counted 17, although we do not argue with Fitzsimmons' central point, that global warming routinely goes unmentioned amid the heavy coverage of extreme weather events. For example, in the first week of Superstorm Sandy coverage, this lonely story by NBC's Richard Engel made a rare mention of rising sea levels.

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