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A few decades from now, when the realities of climate change have hushed even the loudest, densest deniers, we may look back on October 2016 as the month political journalism died. Amid the relentlessly tawdry campaign news, there has been a near total absence of any discussion of substantive issues, including global warming and the environment. TV news celebrities, and horse-race coverage, driven by Twitter, bluster and clickbait, have left them all in the lurch.