Are these the same sophisticated revolutionaries who throw tomato soup on the Van Gough Sunflowers in London last week?
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 at 10:20 AM Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > A group of activists who got into the studio audience Monday on the live > telecast started chanting "Cover climate now," aiming more at ABC News than > Sen. Cruz, Whoopi Goldberg told them to shut up, another host said "we do > cover it" and then another activist shouted "F--k you Ted Cruz, you > climate-denying piece of s--t!" and was promptly escorted out of the studio > (thanks to delay, bleeped on the air--the below link includes a TikTok > video shot by an audience member), as Whoopi called for a commercial: > > > https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-ted-cruz-climate-change-protesters-take-responsibility/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking_news_7160250 > > The activists claim that ABC only devoted 6 hours to climate coverage last > year (with ABC News controlling 7 1/2 hours of programming daily, not > counting weekends, the ABC News Now streamer and prime time--and besides, > "20/20" is pretty much true crime now). ABC says that they are the only > network to have covered last year's UN Climate Summit and point out their > Murrow, Emmy and Polk awards for climate coverage. > > Climate aside, the whole thing seems performative as hell, considering > that Whoopi Goldberg is not the president of ABC News. The only thing that > this incident will cause is "The View" getting Yondr pouches that everyone > will be required to put their phones in and more scrutiny of New York > studio audiences by security than just going through the metal detector at > the door. Yeah, if they showed up in Colbert's audience and started > chanting, they'd just stop tape, kick them out and edit it out, but to me > this is as pointless as throwing food on paintings in museums. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cc0a7c77-fb06-42dd-85dc-e6a60020b6e5n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/cc0a7c77-fb06-42dd-85dc-e6a60020b6e5n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYLgUa%3DsE7xZoJ5zy55AxpNTXvf7hdSRASK5HSBAu%3DqJBg%40mail.gmail.com.
