Holding on to yesterday. Network newscasts have huge viewerships [9 million for NBC and ABC], but they are generally terrible at covering climate change. In 2016, the three major networks and Fox spent a grand total of 50 minutes on the carbon crisis. ABC, the worst offender, dedicated exactly six minutes to climate change and interviewed a total of zero climate scientists.
Twenty-seven million to 29 million viewers, on average, tuned in every night to hear Walter Cronkite on the CBS Evening News. Today, though, the viewership of evening news programs on CBS, NBC and ABC combined is smaller than CBS’ when Cronkite sat in the anchor’s chair. In a 2008 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, just 8% reported regularly watching Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News broadcast.
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll revealed deep divisions amongst Republicans — based on if they cast their primary vote for President Trump — on some of the most hot-button issues facing the United States today.
It should come as no surprise to you to learn that Trump voters are on the bottom of the lists in the % comfortable. This NBC News graph illustrates why Trump's anti-immigration message was so effective during the 2016 presidential campaign.
You have a feeling of how small we are and how big the forces of nature are,” said Laura Burtch, who has made the Golden Gate swim many times. “When you swim the Golden Gate it is really clear that you are into something big. There is a meeting place of the bay and a very large ocean. It is so beautiful, and it is never the same.”
The course runs from Fort Point in San Francisco to Lime Point in Marin, seven-eighths of a mile.
