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    Commentary: CNN's climate town hall was incredibly important and deeply unwatchable

    by Melissa Batchelor Warnke, Los Angeles Times Sep 09, 2019 4 minutes

    I did not see the entirety of the climate change town halls last night because I was at work for part of it. I'd venture a guess you didn't either. CNN deserves credit for hosting an important conversation, yes, but gets marked down for making it so deeply unwatchable.

    For one, the "climate town hall" was fully seven hours long. We need way more than seven hours' worth of news coverage on the fact that humans are driving toward full-scale ecological collapse, so I can hardly quibble with the length. (Cue Zoolander voice: "It needs to be at least three

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