TV News Rapidly Ramps Back Up Covid-19 Coverage

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Television news largely abandoned its Covid-19 coverage to go all-in in covering the George Floyd protests, but as the media have largely moved on from the protests, they’ve rapidly ramped back up their Covid coverage.

The timeline below shows the percentage of daily airtime mentioning the pandemic on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, using data from the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive processed by the GDELT Project.

See the Live Version of the graph below.

GDELT Project