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NBC Fires Weather Channel Environmental Unit
Washington Post - Capital Weather Gang ^ | 11.22.08

Posted on 11/22/2008 8:25:11 PM PST by Cicero

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program during the middle of NBC's "Green Week," as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are among the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; greens; layoffs; liberalmedia; nbc; weather
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I remember when the Weather Channel decided to emphasize Global Warming, not too long ago.

Now it seems they have realized that people want to know how cold it will be tomorrow, or whether it will rain, rather than be filled with guilt every day about their carbon emissions.

1 posted on 11/22/2008 8:25:11 PM PST by Cicero
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To: abb

ping


2 posted on 11/22/2008 8:27:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

3 posted on 11/22/2008 8:27:18 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Read FR First.....THEN Read Drudge.)
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axing the entire staff of the "Forecast Earth" environmental program during the middle of NBC's "Green Week,"

It's like an O. Henry story.

4 posted on 11/22/2008 8:28:11 PM PST by denydenydeny ("Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.."-Daniel Henninger)
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To: Cicero

NBC=Nothing But Crap!


5 posted on 11/22/2008 8:28:32 PM PST by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: Cicero

Hah! The greenie tv bimbos and empty suits lost their jobs! Hey, they can get other “green” jobs; maybe like sorting some cans & bottles at a recycling center!


6 posted on 11/22/2008 8:34:18 PM PST by henkster (It's time for a conservative "long march through the institutions.")
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To: Cicero

Bring back Jill Brown!


7 posted on 11/22/2008 8:35:50 PM PST by kms61
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To: Cicero

At NBC, ‘going green’ really does mean going cheap.


8 posted on 11/22/2008 8:36:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Cue a Late Night with David Letterman picture (his NBC show many years ago?


9 posted on 11/22/2008 8:40:33 PM PST by racing fan
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To: Cicero

The weather is what climate change is about. the weather changes every day.

Its so silly. they don’t say global warming. its climate change...weather.

I guess their hurricane ratings were down.


10 posted on 11/22/2008 8:41:05 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I think at NBC “going green” means “we are watching all our green go...”


11 posted on 11/22/2008 8:41:57 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile...Rom 10.10..)
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To: Cicero
Sounds like someone at NBC (they're still around? who knew?) quit drinking cool-aid, and smelled the coffee.

That doesn't mean I'm going to go out an buy a TV....

/johnny

12 posted on 11/22/2008 8:42:10 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: kms61

Back in the day Jeanetta Jones was hotter than a sirocco!


13 posted on 11/22/2008 8:43:00 PM PST by lightman (BHO: I'd rather defy than deify.)
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To: Cicero

I used to really like the Weather Channel, especially when there was a severe weather event somewhere in the nation. I don’t just mean tornadoes or floods, but just a solid squall or a heavy snowstorm. It served to remind me of life in other parts of the USA away from the mild climate here in California.

I haven’t watched the Weather Channel since they became the Global Warming Channel. I flip over to it for tomorrows rain forecast and highs and lows. Ever since they have been actively courting ratings, I quit watching. Back when they just reported the weather, I watched them all the time. Idiots.


14 posted on 11/22/2008 8:45:19 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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To: Cicero
OK, someone please tell me, How in the hell does Weather Change History?
Weather events are now, history was then...Am I wrong?
How does and current event change history?


15 posted on 11/22/2008 8:45:49 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude (-)....Election 2008, the year of the Affirmative Action President....(-)
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Weather events are now, history was then...Am I wrong?

So there was no weather in the past? I think you're wrong about that!

16 posted on 11/22/2008 8:56:30 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: lightman

I agree with you abou Jeanetta Jones.

She was definitely hot!


17 posted on 11/22/2008 8:58:19 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: kms61

Amen. Amen. Amen.

I’ll miss Dave Schwartz but am glad to see Cullen get the boot.

Now, maybe TWC will re-focus on their core business and again present the weather. Seems like every time I’ve needed to see what the weather was going to be lately, I’ve gotten nothing but documentaries of weather events from 40 years ago or mindless pap from the leftist, green folks. Mercifully, some of these pinheads will be gone.


18 posted on 11/22/2008 9:00:12 PM PST by miele man
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To: dr_lew

My question is, weather makes history,
how does weather change history?

Maybe it alters patterns, like we are
seeing now, with the cooler temps. Thats
not changing history, its making history.


19 posted on 11/22/2008 9:01:36 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude (-)....Election 2008, the year of the Affirmative Action President....(-)
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To: Cicero

Maybe they can get new jobs with All Bore!


20 posted on 11/22/2008 9:06:09 PM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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