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Carbon Omission:

How the U.S. Media Failed to Connect

Extreme Weather

to Climate Change in

2018

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Acknowledgments 

This reportwas researched andwritten by Angelica Greco, intern, and David Arkush,managingdirector,ofPublicCitizen’sClimateProgram.

About Public Citizen 

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Introduction 

The year 2018 saw an extraordinary number of significant developments on climate change. AnabridgedlistincludesHurricanesMichaelandFlorence,rapidlythawingArcticice,anunprecedentedwildfire season, numerous record‐breaking high temperatures and devastating heat waves, andcontinuingeffortsbytheDonaldTrumpadministrationtopromotetheburningof fossil fuelsandreversepoliciesthatcombatglobalwarming.Additionally,multipledire,authoritativereportswerereleased,includingVolumeIIoftheFourthNationalClimateAssessmentandtheIntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChange(IPCC)specialreportontheimpactofwarmingof1.5°C.1

Surveys consistently show that the vast majority of Americans would welcome more climatereporting.Seveninten(69percent)saytheyare“interested”inclimatechange;thesamepercentageare at least “somewhatworried”about it; and72percent say the issue is “somewhat,” “very,”or“extremely”importanttothempersonally.2Despitethesehighlevelsofinterestandconcern,only56percentofAmericanssaytheyhearaboutclimatechangeinthemediaatleastonceamonth.3

Thisreportexaminesmediacoverageoftopicsrelevanttoclimatechangethatgarneredsignificantattention in 2018—extreme weather events—and assesses the extent to which media outletsexplicitlyconnectedthemtoclimatechange.

Onthewhole,theproportionofpiecesthatmentionedclimatechangewasdisappointinglylow.Therewasnoclimate‐relatedformofextremeweatherthatthemediaconnectedtoclimatechangeinmorethan35percentofpieces.Thathigh‐watermarkcomes fromarticlesdiscussingrecorddrought.4Extremeheatfaredsimilarly,with34percentofpiecesmentioningclimatechange.Forhurricanes,theratewasjust7percent.

Wealsoconsidered thecriticalquestionwhethernewsoutletsmentionedsolutionsormitigationwhendiscussingclimatechange.Coveragefellfarshortonthisscore,withjust13percentofpiecesonclimatealsomentioningsolutions.Newspapersandtelevisionnetworksperformedsignificantlyworsethanthataveragenumberforallmedia,withratesof8percentand5percent,respectively.

Onebrightspotinthisanalysisisthatthemediadidbetterin2018than2017onnearlyalltopics—andoftensignificantlybetter.(Atthesametime,wemusttakecarenottoover‐interpretaone‐yearchange as a durable trend.) There were many other highlights of climate‐reporting as well—numerousexcellentpiecesbyindividualreporters,afewpublicationsthatstandoutasproducinga

1 U.S. Global Change Research Program, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Our changing climate, Nov. 2018,https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Globalwarming of 1.5°C, Oct. 2018,https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/.2AnthonyLeiserowitz,etal.,ClimatechangeintheAmericanmind:December2018,Jan.22,2019,https://pubc.it/2WrhNTn.3Id.4Throughout,thisreport,wewritelooselyofpieces“discussing”thetermsforwhichwesearched,aswecountedanarticleifitmerelyturnedupintheresultsofasearchforatermregardlessofthecharacterorextentoftherelevantdiscussion.Wealsouse“article”loosely,asmanyofthepiecesdiscussedareopinioncolumns,editorials,ortranscriptsoftelevisionbroadcasts.

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highvolumeandhigh‐qualityworkand,perhapsmostnotably,thelaunchoftheInvadingSeaproject,acollaborativeeffortbytheMiamiHerald,ThePalmBeachPost,theSun‐Sentinel,andWLRNPublicMediatospuractiononthethreatofsea‐levelriseinFlorida.

Forproducers,editors,orreporterswhowanttoknowwhetherorhowtodiscussclimatechangeinthecontextofextremeweather,thereareexcellentguides.MajorexamplesareClimateCentral,inparticular its ClimateMatters program, and Climate Nexus, including its Climate Signals project.Public Citizen has relied on these organizations in drafting memoranda offering suggestions toreporters at the onset of extreme‐weather seasons.5 It is also worth noting that the science ofascertaining thedegree towhichclimatechangecontributed toagivenweatherevent,knownas“attributionscience,”isimprovingrapidly.InthecaseofHurricaneFlorencelastyear,researcherswere able to show before the storm evenmade landfall that climate changewasmagnifying itsanticipatedrainfall,intensity,andsize.6

Finally, aswe have discussed in other analyses, newsrooms thatwant to provide better climatereportingfortheiraudiencesbutlacktheresourcestodosocanadaptorreprintstoriesfrombetter‐resourcedpublicationsorwireservices,someofwhichareproducingagooddealofexcellentwork.7StandoutsincludeTheNewYorkTimes,TheWashingtonPost,andtheAssociatedPress.

Methodology 

Forthisanalysis,wesearchedtelevisionnewstranscripts,printnewspaperarticles,andonlinenewsarticlesonclimate‐relevanttopics—forexample,“recordheatwave”or“historicflooding”—tofindthenumberofpiecesoneachtopicthatmentionedanddidnotmentionclimatechange.ThetermsweusedarelistedinTable1attheendofthisreport.Wecountedapieceasdiscussingatopicifitmadethebarestmentionoftherelevantterms—thatis,ifthepiecemerelyturnedupinthesearchresultsforthoseterms.

Thelistofthetop50U.S.papersbycirculationwascompiledusingdatafromCisioninMay2018andis limited to English‐language, subscription newspapers. Many significant local dailies are notincluded,suchasThePalmBeachPostandTheCharlotteObserver.Thesameistrueofpapersthatcover CapitolHill, likeTheHill,Politico, andRollCall (although the list of digitalmedia includesPolitico.com).Thisanalysisalsodoesnotincluderadioorlocaltelevision.

5SeePublicCitizen,Notetoreportersandeditorialboards:Ashurricaneseasonbegins,connectthedotstoclimatechange,May31,2018,https://pubc.it/2J3vBAo;PublicCitizen,Notetoreportersandeditorialboards:Assummerbegins,remembertoconnectthedotsbetweenextremeheatandclimatechange,June22,2018,https://pubc.it/2WtZPQ2.6 See Kevin A. Reed, Estimating the potential impact of climate change on Hurricane Florence, Sep. 12, 2018,https://pubc.it/2Ws2Lwu.7See,e.g.,PublicCitizen,Extremesilence:HowtheU.S.mediahavefailedtoconnectclimatechangetoextremeheatin2018,July26,2018,https://pubc.it/2AdkBMv.

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WeusedNexis to search the top50U.S. newspapers and television transcripts fromsixnationaltelevisionnewsnetworks(ABC,CBS,CNN,Fox,MSNBC,andNBC).8Weusedthe“GroupDuplicates”feature,seton“HighSimilarity.”Wedidnotexaminetheresults,oftenvoluminous,todiscardfalsepositives.

Foronlinesources,weusedMediaCloud’s“U.S.TopOnlineNews2017”collection,whichincludes32sources.9Media Clouddoes not permit proximity searches, inwhich one searches for two termswithinacertainnumberofwordsofoneanother,orinthesamesentenceorparagraph.Therefore,ininstanceswhereweusedproximitysearchesfortelevisiontranscriptsandnewspapers,wewerelimitedtousingtheANDconnectorfordigitalcontent.Asaresult,somesearchesofdigitalsourcesaresignificantlymoreinclusivethanthosefornewspapersandtelevision.

Analysis 

Withthe fall2018releasesofVolumeIIof theFourthNationalClimateAssessmentandthe IPCCspecialreportonglobalwarmingof1.5°C,theconnectionsbetweenanthropogenicclimatechangeandextremeweathereventshavebecomeonlyclearer.Below,wediscusssomecommontypesofclimate‐influencedextremeweatherandevaluatetheextenttowhichU.S.mediaconnectedthemtoclimatechangein2018.

Heat.Higherglobaltemperaturesareoneoftheprincipalandbestknowneffectsofclimatechange.Ofthepast17years,16havebeenthehottestonrecord.10Inaddition,asglobalwarmingincreasesaverageannualtemperatures,thenumberofextremelyhotindividualdaysisrisingfaster.11

In2018,ayearwhenrecordhightemperaturesscorchedareasacrosstheglobe,just33percentofarticlesinthetop50newspapersmentioningrecordorextremeheatalsomentionedclimatechange.Thisisaslightimprovementover2017,whentheratewas28percent.Theratewashigherononlinenewssites,with38percentofarticlesmentioningclimatechange(comparedto39percentin2017).

8Thenewspapersare:TheArizonaRepublic,ArkansasDemocrat‐Gazette,AtlantaJournal‐Constitution,TheBaltimoreSun,The Boston Globe, The Buffalo News, Chicago Sun‐Times, Chicago Tribune, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Plain Dealer(Cleveland),TheColumbusDispatch,DallasMorningNews,TheDenverPost,DetroitFreePress,EastBayTimes,HonoluluStar‐Advertiser,HoustonChronicle,IndianapolisStar,KansasCityStar,LasVegasReview‐Journal,LosAngelesTimes,TheMercuryNews,MiamiHerald,MilwaukeeJournalSentinel,DailyNews(NewYork),NewYorkPost,TheNewYorkTimes,Newsday,TheOklahoman,OmahaWorld‐Herald, TheOrange County Register, TheOregonian,Orlando Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer,PittsburghPost‐Gazette,TheSacramentoBee,TheSanDiegoUnion‐Tribune,SanFranciscoChronicle,TheSeattleTimes,St.LouisPost‐Dispatch,St.PaulPioneerPress,StarTribune,TheStar‐Ledger,SunSentinel,TampaBayTimes,TheTimesPicayune,USAToday,TheVirginian‐Pilot,TheWallStreetJournal,TheWashingtonPost.9AccordingtoMediaCloud,thecollectionincludesthe“topnewswebsitesoftheyearbyAugust2017intheUnitedStates,accordingtodatafromcomScore,ActivateandAlexa.”Thewebsitesare:blogs.wsj.com,Breitbart,BusinessInsider,Buzzfeed,CBSNews,CNBC,CNN,DailyCaller,DailyNews,Forbes,FOXNews,Guardian‐UnitedStates,HuffingtonPost,LATimes,NBCNews,NewYorkTimes,NewYorker,NewsMax,Politico,Reuters,Slate.com,TheAtlantic,TheBlaze,Time,USAToday,Vox,WallStreetJournal,WashingtonPost,andYahooNews‐LatestNews&Headlines.MediaCloudliststhreeadditionalwebsitesinthecollection(Bloomberg,DrudgeReport,andfinance.yahoo.com)foratotalof32,butitdoesnotappeartohaveanycontentfromthesethreesitesfortheperiodcoveredbythisanalysis.10U.S.GlobalChangeResearchProgram,FourthNationalClimateAssessment,Ourchangingclimate,Nov.2018,https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/(visitedJan.9,2019).11Id.

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On television networks, the rate was lower: Only 22 percent of television news segments alsomentioned climate‐related terms.Televisionnetworks improved significantly from2017 to2018though.In2017,only10percentofsegmentsonextremeheatmentionedclimate.

Drought,Rainfall, and Flooding. Climate change is altering precipitation around the world inseveralways.Insomeareas,itincreasesordecreasesthetotalamountofrainorsnowfall.Inothers,total precipitation may remain roughly the same, but become concentrated into fewer, heavierevents.12 Heavier precipitation causes more runoff, potentially leading to drought.13 Whereprecipitation remains the same overall,warmer temperatures can lead tomore evaporation andthereforedrierconditionsandmoredrought.Bothdroughtsandheavydownpoursareincreasingduetoclimatechange,andclimatechangeisalsoprojectedtoworsenU.S.droughtsseverelyinthecomingdecades.14

Regardingdroughtcoverage,wefoundimprovementacrossallmediacategoriesbetween2017and2018.Thispastyear,nearly40percentoftelevisionnewstranscriptsthatmentioneddroughtalsomentionedclimatechange—animprovementon2017,whenonly27percentdidso.Therewasasimilar increase among the top 50 newspapers; although only 18 percent of articles on droughtmentionedclimatechangein2017,theratejumpedto33percentin2018.Foronlinenewssources,25percentlinkeddroughttoclimatechangein2017,and36percentdidsoin2018.

Thenumbersareworsewhenitcomestoextremerainfall.Fortelevisionnews,only11percentofpiecesthatmentionedextremerainfallalsomentionedclimatechange inboth2017and2018. In2018, 25 percent of print media stories on extreme rainfall connected it to climate change, animprovementover19percent in2017.Onlinenewssourceswerethemost likelyto linkextremeprecipitationtoclimatechange,with32percentofonlinepiecesmakingtheconnection(versus28percentin2017).

Thenumbersonfloodingarelesspromisingstill.Ingeneral,outletsreportedonextremefloodinglessoftenthantheyreportedonextremeheat,drought,orrainfall.Ofthearticlesthatturnedup,fewmentionclimatechange.In2018,thetopnewspaperspublished45piecesthatmentionedextremeflooding, ofwhich only five (11 percent),mentioned of climate change.National television newsnetworksandtoponlinenewssitesransimilarlysmallnumbersofpieces,24and44,respectively,mentioningclimatechangeatratesof8percentand23percent,respectively.Theratesfor2017fornewspapers,television,andonlinesourceswere7percent,14percent,and11percent,respectively.

Wildfires.Climatechangehaslengthenedthewildfireseason,andU.S.wildfireshavebeengrowingbothintotalareaburnedandfinancialcost.15Wildfireshaveburnedrecordamountsoflandacross

12ClimateCommunication,Precipitation,floodsanddrought,http://pubc.it/2kHdhhv(visitedJan.9,2019)13ClimateSignals,Droughtriskincrease,https://pubc.it/2WuTjsh(visitedJan9,2019).14U.S.GlobalChangeResearchProgram,FourthNationalClimateAssessment,Ourchangingclimate,Nov.2018,https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/(visitedJan.9,2019).15ClimateNexus,Wildfires,http://pubc.it/2BpRgeK(visitedJan.9,2019)

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theUS.Between2000and2016,wildfiresburnedapproximately3.7millionacresoflandintheUSeachyear.In2015,arecord10.2millionacresburned.16

In 2018, a yearwhenwildfires lead to record losses of human life and property, the data showimprovementacrossallmediacategoriescomparedto2017.In2017,televisionnetworksmentionedclimatechangeinonly8percentoftranscriptswhererecordwildfirewasmentioned;thatnumberincreasedto21percentin2018.Thetop50papersalsoimproved;19percentof2017articleslinkedwildfirestoclimatechange,while29percentdidsoin2018.Onlinenewssourcesalsoimproved,withtherateofmentioningclimateincreasingfrom22percentin2017to28percentin2018.

Thelistoftop50U.S.papersincludesmultipleoutletsinCalifornia,thestateaffectedmostdirectlybyseverewildfiresin2018.Californiapapersthereforemighthaveprintedaninordinatenumberwildfirearticlesfocusedonemergencyeffortsorothermatterswithwhichonewouldnotexpectadiscussion of climate change. Indeed, if one excludes California papers, the rates of connectingwildfirestoclimatechangefornewspapersin2018improvesfrom29to34percent.For2017,bycontrast,excludingCaliforniapaperschangestheoverallfigurebyanegligible0.3percent.

Hurricanes.Like2017,theyear2018sawmultiplehurricaneswhosedestructionwasexacerbatedbyclimatechange.In2017,itwasHarvey,Irma,Maria,andNate.In2018,itwasFlorenceandMichael.

There are well‐established links between climate change and increased hurricane damage. Forexample,warmeroceantemperatures leadtostrongerwindsandfaster intensificationofstorms.Warmerairleadstomorerain(andworseflooding)andhighersealevelsworsenstormsurges.17

Hurricanes Harvey, Maria, and Irma were among the top five most expensive hurricanes in UShistory,withacombined$265billionindamage.18Despitetheserecent,staggeringeconomiccosts,aswellas thehuman toll, theU.S.media in2018continuedrarely todiscusshowhuman‐causedclimatechangecontributestothedevastationfromhurricanes.

In 2018, online news sources published 10,895 pieces on the hurricanes named above. Only 10percent of those pieces (1,041) mentioned climate change. For television news, of the 2,090transcripts thatmention the hurricanes, amere 8 percent (165)make the connection to climatechange. Print media fared the worst. Of the 11,983 articles mentioning the hurricanes, 567 (5percent)mentionedclimatechange.Asformostothertopics,thesenumbersareimprovementsover2017,whentherateswere6percentfortelevisionandonlinemediaand3percentfornewspapers.

16 U.S. Global Change Research Program, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Forests, Nov. 2018,https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/6/(visitedJan.9,2019).17ClimateSignals,Intensecyclone,hurricane,typhoonfrequencyincrease,https://pubc.it/2WvkaED(visitedJan.9,2019);U.S.GlobalChangeResearchProgram,FourthNationalClimateAssessment,Ourchangingclimate,Nov.2018,https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/(visitedJan.9,2019).18 Office for Coastal Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane costs,https://pubc.it/2WvAiWD(visitedJan.15,2019).

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Thelistoftop50U.S.newspapersincludessomepapersfromFlorida,Louisiana,andTexas—statesdirectlyaffectedbyhurricanesin2017and2018.Ifoneexcludespapersinthosestates,theratesinthoseyearsimproveto4and6percent,respectively.

Table2belowprovidesmoredetaileddataonmentionsofextremeweatherandclimatechange.

Solutions 

Perhapsthemostcriticalquestiononclimatechangeiswhetherandhowwecansolvetheproblem.Significantwarminghasalreadyoccurred,andmoreisunavoidable.Butitisstillpossibletopreventtheworstharmswithpoliciesthatarenotjustfeasibleandaffordable,butbeneficialontheirownterms, even if not formitigating climate change,19 aswell aswidely popular across the politicalspectrum.20It iscriticalthatmediaoutletsdiscusstheavailability,affordability,andpopularityofclimatesolutionssothatthepublicandpolicymakerscanmakeinformeddecisions.

Ouranalysis found that themedia is falling far shorthere. In2018,only8percentofnewspaperarticles, 5 percent of television transcripts, and 16 percent of online news articles mentionedsolutions or mitigation in pieces discussing climate change. Like most other topics, these ratesrepresentimprovementsover2017,inwhich6percentofprintnewspaperarticles,13percentofonlinenewspieces,and3percentoftelevisionbroadcastsmentionedmitigationorsolutions.FullresultsonsolutionsareavailableinTable3below.

Conclusion 

Climate change is the greatest crisis of our time. Responding to it adequately will requireextraordinaryengagementbythepublicandimportantdecisionsbybothvotersandpolicymakers.Newsmediahaveamajorroletoplayinprovidingkeyinformationaboutthecrisisandsolutionstoinformthoseactions.Onewaytoreportonthesubjectissimplytoconnecteverydaycoveragetoclimatewhererelevant;anotheristocovertheclimatecrisisdirectly,includingbydiscussinghowwecanmitigateit.Thisanalysisfindsthat,onthewhole,majornewsoutletsfellshortonbothtypesofcoveragein2018.

19See,e.g.,KirkHamilton,MilanBrahmbhatt, JiemeiLiu,Multiplebenefits fromclimatechangemitigation:Assessing theevidence,GranthamResearchInstituteonClimateChangeandtheEnvironment(2017),https://pubc.it/2ME7Pt4;DavidArkush,“Howmovingawayfromfossilfuelscansavelivesandleadtoexpandedhealthcoverage,”TheHill,June30,2017,http://pubc.it/2CSgS4U.20 See, e.g., Timothy Cama, “Poll: Majorities of both parties support Green New Deal,” The Hill, Dec. 17, 2018,https://pubc.it/2WxOKNE;seegenerally,YaleProgramonClimateCommunication,Yaleclimateopinionmaps2018,Aug.7,2018,https://pubc.it/2Wum882.

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Tables 

Table 1. Search Terms 

Topic  Search Terms* 

Drought ("historic drought" OR "record drought" OR "severe drought" OR "extreme drought") 

Floods  ("historic flood*" OR "record flood*" OR "severe flood*" OR "extreme flood*") 

Extreme heat ("heat record*" OR "record heat" OR "record heat wave*" OR "extreme heat" OR "severe heat" OR "historic heat") 

Rainfall ("historic rainfall" OR "record rainfall" OR "severe rainfall" OR "extreme rainfall") 

Wildfires wildfire* /3 (historic OR severe OR extreme OR record OR record‐setting OR record‐breaking OR unprecedented OR catastrophic OR massive OR deadliest OR worst OR deadly) 

Hurricanes ("hurricane michael") OR ("hurricane florence") OR ("hurricane harvey") OR ("hurricane irma") OR ("hurricane maria") OR ("hurricane nate") 

Climate change and solutions 

(("climate change" OR "global warming" OR "changing climate") /s solution) OR (("climate change" OR "global warming" OR "changing climate") /s mitigat*) OR (("climate change" OR "global warming" OR "changing climate") /s solv*) 

* For Media Cloud, we used “AND” instead of proximity connectors such as “/3” or “/s”.  

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Table 2. Mentions of extreme weather and climate change by the top 50 U.S. newspapers by circulation and six national television news networks, 2018 

Topic  Sources 

2018  2017 

Mentioned Climate 

Total Pieces  Percentage 

Mentioned Climate 

Pieces Total  Percentage 

Drought 

All Sources  283  811  34.9%  206  916  22.5% 

Newspapers  111  339  32.7%  63  356  17.7% 

Television   23  59  39.0%  15  56  26.8% 

Online News  149  413  36.1%  128  504  25.4% 

Flooding 

All Sources  17  113  15.0%  18  189  9.5% 

Newspapers  5  45  11.1%  6  88  6.8% 

Television   2  24  8.3%  4  29  13.8% 

Online News  10  44  22.7%  8  72  11.1% 

Heat 

All Sources  643  1,889  34.0%  514  1,642  31.3% 

Newspapers  251  756  33.2%  177  641  27.6% 

Television   57  258  22.1%  19  188  10.1% 

Online News  335  875  38.3%  318  813  39.1% 

Rainfall 

All Sources  136  514  26.5%  156  670  23.3% 

Newspapers  49  200  24.5%  48  251  19.1% 

Television   7  62  11.3%  7  64  10.9% 

Online News  80  252  31.7%  101  355  28.5% 

Hurricanes 

All Sources  2,038  29,187  7.0%  2,415  51,773  4.7% 

Newspapers  567  11,983  4.7%  623  18,996  3.3% 

Newspapers (Exclu‐ding FL, LA, and TX) 

265  4,219  6.3%  339  7,920  4.3% 

Television   165  2,090  7.9%  181  3,115  5.8% 

Online News  1,041  10,895  9.6%  1,272  21,742  5.9% 

Wildfire 

All Sources  2,463  8,855  27.8%  1,031  5,067  20.3% 

Newspapers  507  1,746  29.0%  131  696  18.8% 

Newspapers (Excluding CA) 

230  677  34.0%  65  341  19.1% 

Television   133  638  20.8%  29  355  8.2% 

Online News  1,593  5,794  27.5%  806  3,675  21.9% 

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Table 3. Mentions of mitigation or solutions and climate change by the top 50 U.S. newspapers by circulation and six national television news networks, 2018 

Sources 

2018  2017 

Mentioned solutions 

Total pieces on climate  Percentage 

Mentioned solutions 

Total pieces on climate  Percentage 

All Sources  4,327  34,545  12.5%  5,063  48,990  10.3% 

Newspapers  1,097  13,741  8.0%  926  15,228  6.1% 

Television   69  1,429  4.8%  61  1,967  3.1% 

Online News  3,161  19,375  16.3%  4,076  31,795  12.8%