Better late than never and better one out of four than none. That’s the scorecard for NBC Nightly News on August 20. NBC has managed to report, often, on shootings with no mention of the proliferations of guns, much less the need for control. It has reported, repeatedly, on weird weather with no mention of climate change, let alone of human responsibility for that, still less of measures to combat it. On Tuesday, that changed, only partly, but in that part rather dramatically.
The broadcast carried two stories in the former category, one about a man caught at an elementary school with an AK-47, the other about three teenagers who shot and killed a stranger simply for something to do. In line with its policy, practice, ideology, irresponsibility or simple cowardice, it again said nothing about the gun culture.
There was the usual lack of comment in a story about forest fires. However, in a report on melting Arctic ice, NBC apparently no longer could ignore the elephant in the room (pun intended) and therefore allowed a report by Ann Curry to mention, forcefully, global warming, its effect on weather systems and the major human contribution through the burning of fossil fuels. There was nothing about solutions, but still, this is progress.
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