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What TV Executives Don’t Understand About the Climate Emergency

Broadcast and cable news have done an abysmal job of dramatizing the reality of climate change. I should know: I’ve been in the rooms where those conversations have happened.

Still from The Day After Tomorrow
Credit: 20th Century Fox
Baratunde Thurston
September 21, 2021

A few weeks ago, my friend Anand Giridharadas was preparing to guest host a show on MSNBC, and he asked if I could join him on set to provide some tongue-in-cheek commentary about the latest United Nations climate report. Because what’s friendship about, really, if not to be invited onto national television to gently mock the impending end of the world as we know it?