How have book banning and book burning been covered on television news? The timeline below shows total mentions of book burning across CNN, MSNBC and Fox News over the past decade, showing surges around the September 2010 Pentagon burning of the initial printing of the book "Operation Dark Heart" and the February 2012 accidental incineration of Korans at a US military base in Afghanistan. Mentions have been relatively few in the years since these two events, though have increased slightly in the past two years.