PBS President and CEO Pat Mitchell, after being asked to name the most under-reported news story of the week, on CNN's "Greenfield at Large," August 10, 2001:

Well, certainly the weather has been the headline, but what's troubled me is that the press hasn't gone beyond the headline very much. This was such a great opportunity to talk about global warming and climate change. I mean, it couldn't have been on our minds more as we were perspiring through the heat.... That would have been the starting point to talk about why we are in this place, why do we have 100 degree temperatures and what can we do about it?

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