Analysis: Cable news has covered a dead senator more than living flood victims
Environmental restoration workers this week deployed a containment boom from a boat on Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, as a precaution against possible fuel leaks in the flooded area. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 22 at 10:24 AM Several people have been killed in the flooding that has drowned significant parts of Nebraska and Iowa, with estimates of the cost of the damage already topping $1 billion.
There are real reasons that Trump’s ongoing feud with a dead man is important to the political moment, as The Washington Post reported on Friday, given how it overlaps with Trump’s effort to solidify his base ahead of the 2020 presidential election. But it’s hard to see it as inherently more newsworthy than the flooding in Nebraska.
Cable news networks, though, spent more time on Monday and Tuesday of this week talking about McCain than Nebraska flooding or climate change. In fact, they spent more time talking about George Conway’s feud with Trump than either Nebraska or climate change. Compare that to broadcast news networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and PBS. They, too, picked up McCain but, on average, spent more time talking about Nebraska and mostly ignored Conway.
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