Posted on 07/08/2007 7:58:24 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.
Organisers of the global music concert - punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers - had predicted massive viewing figures.
But BBC's live afternoon television coverage attracted an average British audience of just 900,000.
In the evening, when coverage switched from BBC2 to BBC1, the figure rose to just 2.7million.
And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before.
Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10million in 1985.
The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday's good weather and said its Wimbledon tennis coverage had drawn away afternoon viewers.
Critics said however that the public had simply snubbed what they saw as a hypocritical event.
Musicians including Bob Geldof, Roger Daltrey and the Pet Shop Boys pointed out that a concert highlighting climate change had itself generated huge carbon emissions.
Performers were criticised for flying to concerts that were staged simultaneously on seven continents.
The BBC's coverage, which ran for 15 hours from 12.30pm on Saturday to 4am yesterday, also sparked dozens of complaints about bad language.
The swearing started at 1.30pm when Phil Collins, the first act on in London, used the f-word while singing with his band Genesis.
Razorlight singer Johnny Borrell used the same expletive a few minutes later in one of his songs. And Chris Rock swore while introducing fellow comic Ricky Gervais, who soon followed suit.
The bad language prompted a number of angry postings on BBC messageboards.
One viewer wrote: "Why did the BBC transmit this during daytime TV when many children will be watching? Why hasn't an apology been immediately forthcoming?" Another said: "It was disgusting behaviour." Other comments included: "It was pretty bad at that time of day" and "There is a line to be drawn".
A BBC spokesman said: "We asked artists not to swear but sometimes they get carried away. We are very sorry for any offence caused."
The mounds of rubbish left by the 65,000 concert-goers at Wembley further tarnished the event's green credentials.
Organisers claimed most of the waste would be sorted and recycled but the Daily Mail saw little evidence of that taking place. The Alliance for Climate Protection event was organised by Al Gore, the former U.S. vice-president and environmental campaigner
Say you weren't porked, Gork!
The mounds of rubbish left by the 65,000 concert-goers at Wembley further tarnished the event's green credentials.I'm not sure what "green credentials" would even be, but I'm sure that this event never had any to begin with.
And by their deeds shall ye know them...
Perhaps it was a huge success after all — viewers were just saving energy by powering down their TV sets.
Gore farts, and the Earth suffers.
Classic. I read an article earlier that blamed poor attendance at the Johannesburg show on bad weather. So to summarize, the show was unsuccessful due to the weather being good and bad. That about covers it.
Pictures, please.
From any and all events.
I've already seen the 60 - 70% "sell-out" stadium shots.
The skid is the face of the green “movement” (pun intended)
You shall know them by their nasty anus’s wiped with only one square of toilet paper.
It’s an inconvenient truth, but mixing rock with recycling is awkward. In a TV interview earlier this week, Matt Bellamy of the band Muse mocked the event as “private jets for climate change.”
John Buckley of Carbon Footprint, an organization that helps companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, said Saturday that Live Earth will produce about 74,500 tons of the gas.
“We would have to plant 100,000 trees to offset the effect of Live Earth,” he said.
You are irrelevant. Please find something productive to do, like washing cars.
Hugs and Kisses,
Grizzled Bear
Of course their shows have had outbreaks of various diseases too.
And the governor of NJ expects us all to live in this squalor
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0906/is_15_49/ai_62024438/pg_2
The mounds of rubbish left by the 65,000 concert-goers at Wembley further tarnished the event’s green credentials.
Frauds to the end..
“Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
;^)
2 billion, 2 billion, 2 billion!
It was two billion, stop lying to me!
It was 2 billion - Al said so, so it MUST be true!
2 billion, 2 billion, and what’s more were all going to be under 20 feet of water if we don’t use LED light bulbs NOW !!!
But don’t cha know, the Libs will be telling us that this is a Woodstock-style world-changing event, one that will define a generation....
Just watch. You’ll hear it all in the coming days and months.
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