Posted on 08/15/2008 2:18:43 PM PDT by Rufus2007
The NBC family of networks has no problem showing viewers how to save the planet. But if it is a muggy, smoggy 85 degrees, as is the forecast for Beijing this week, consider looking elsewhere for eco-inspiration.
WHTR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis reported from Beijing and described the NBC set used for the networks two highest rated news broadcasts, “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” as air conditioned – even though it is outdoors.
“The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather bearable,” Anne Marie Tiernon wrote for WHTR Eyewitness News on August 14.
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I disagree. By using air conditioning in the open air environment you are actually cooling off global warming. It’s the people keeping the cool indoors that are the problem.
Wouldn’t want their make-up to run.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ROTFL
Wasn’t it NBC who had a “green day” or “green week” earlier this year, where they actually turned down the lights on the live set and had their talking heads pontificating in the dark? And weren’t they encouraging their audience to dim the lives in their own living rooms, so everyone could get “green” together?
Not really a surprise ... the parent company of NBC - General Electric - is headed up by a green CEO who is pushing 23 joint ventures with Chinese firms so what’s a little more pollution to make the talking heads comfortable?
Running AC with the doors open? I bet they keep the lights on when nobody is outdoors, too.
And didn’t they light candles?
When I take over this country Im gonna make every employee of the MSM dig ditches!
Apologies to honest ditch diggers.
Letterman jokes about keeping the place cold, but those lights generate a lot of heat. I took the NBC tour in 1991 about noon and the Today show set was still about 75 degrees at noon. It runs at 45-50 when there is no one there. If they didn’t run the AC, the people would be fainting on screen.
Isn't this soon to be against the law in NYC?
Not a big loss if it's NBC
whoa an air condition is a heater. VR equal power equals hear
IxIxR equals heat. i think
Wahhhhhh. Boo hoo.
85 degrees - big deal.
Maybe they purchased carbon credits for their increased carbon output?
“whoa an air condition is a heater. VR equal power equals hear”
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa....I thought it was 1 + 1 = Love.
I think you meant “hair” and not “hear”.
Bob Costas would shrink to 3 foot tall when his wax shoe inserts melt away!
Aren’t these the same fools who shut off the lights in the studio to be green before a football game?
Bunch of tools!
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