CBS News Aired 3-Hour TV Special on Energy Back in 1977—Where Is the Climate Crisis Coverage Now?
By Alfred Robert Hogan Forty-six years ago, CBS News took over the three hours of CBS-TV’s prime time schedule, for a special broadcast on the final day of August, called ENERGY: THE FACTS, THE FEARS, THE FUTURE, anchored by the late Walter Cronkite from New York. In recent years and decades, even as the No. 1 climate crisis has accelerated and worsened even beyond the projections made by most climate scientists, nothing remotely similar has been broadcast to the public, or even telecast on cabl