Over Memorial Day weekend, a series of devastating extreme weather events across America – from deadly storms and tornadoes to record-shattering heat waves – continued a trend of escalating weather extremes, which has been observed both nationally and globally this year. These events are not isolated incidents; as Media Matters noted earlier in May, the world has already experienced a string of record-breaking extreme weather events in 2024, and experts predict this trend will continue in the coming months. The urgency of the situation demands a more comprehensive response from national TV news, which has thus far failed to consistently connect extreme weather to the rapidly escalating climate crisis and its increasingly devastating impacts.
TV news is just terrible. I find that reading news is the best way to consume it. I guess, however, you have to know how to read in order to consume it this way.
