NYT/AP: Tom Brokaw Joins Fight Against Global Warming

[DeepModem Mom]

Brokaw Joins Fight Against Global Warming
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: July 9, 2006

NEW YORK (AP) -- Tom Brokaw is giving Al Gore some company in the effort to raise awareness of global warming. The former NBC anchorman is host of ''Global Warming: What You Need to Know,'' which doubles as an explainer and call to action for average Americans. It premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. on the Discovery Channel.

Brokaw said he has seen and was impressed by ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' Gore's documentary on the subject.

''It's the same science that we are drawing upon and it's irrefutable,'' he said. ''I thought there was too much of Gore, but that's not my call. I thought it was very effectively done. To give credit to him, he's been on this issue for a long period of time.''

Discovery, which has a partnership with NBC News, asked Brokaw last year if there were any projects he would like to work on. He said he was interested in the environment, and Discovery mentioned its global-warming project, which it was making in partnership with the BBC.

Brokaw's wife, Meredith, is vice president of the environmental organization Conservation International. They've traveled to some of the places featured in the Discovery documentary, like Patagonia and Mongolia, and have seen firsthand the effects of global warming....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-TV-Global-Warming.html

[daleo]

1. "I thought there was too much of Gore"

It seems like they have to slag Gore even when they admit he's right. It's a cheap shot.

[Ian David]

2. I heard that Al shouldn't have taken off his shirt on camera so much

I'm kidding.

[u4ic]

9. And I thought

it needed more nudity!

Drive the message home - dang it's hot! :silly:

[Tesha]

18. James Tiberious Gore, ehh?

> I heard that Al shouldn't have taken off his shirt on camera so much.

James Tiberious Gore, ehh?

Tesha

[high density]

7. There was too much Brokaw on NBC Nightly News for years.

Unfortunately Brian Williams isn't any better.

[Cha]

10. Too bad, brokaw.

The Producer wanted it that way..Gore was against it but Davis Guggenheim got his way.

I can't wait to see it and own it!

[kurth]

3. It's on now - nowhere as good as Gore

But it has the typical advice: Ditch your SUV, switch to fluorescent, etc.

[Tinksrival]

6. Just curious.......

Is there to much Tom Brokaw?

[Ringo84]

4. Tom

Another biased reporter from the lib'rul MSM. :sarcasm:

Another reason to like Brokaw!
Ringo

[Algorem]

5. he got his hot-air blowhole sewn up?

[LibDemAlways]

8. Brokaw is such a reflexive media whore.

He just can't comment on a Dem without including a cheap shot. Who has had more media facetime the past few decades, Gore or Brokaw? What an ass.

[Cha]

11. Exactly...peeps

in glass houses shouldn't throw stones..brokaw.

[lisa58]

12. I'm gonna watch it...

... in about a half hour - but that shot at Gore really pissed me off...who the "F" is Brokaw to be so self-important...oh I forgot, part of the liberal media!!!

[Reckon]

13. Thanks for the heads up!

I just looked at the guide and it's comes on next Sunday.

[Tellurian]

14. Brokaw, Al doesn't need your input for his validation..

You traveling to many of these places helped contribute
to the problems of global warming. Gore isn't a journalist,
you are-

Why don't you stretch your red neck out a little, by calling
Cronkite, for pointers on how journalists in the field accurately
report what is going on in this world.

[IndianaGreen]

15. Brokaw: The science "it's irrefutable"!

Discovery does intend to alter one part of the film that, in a preview tape, talks about the United States' refusal to participate in the Kyoto international treaty to reduce greenhouse gases, he said. During the discussion, a picture is flashed of a demonstrator holding a picture of President Bush emblazoned with ''toxic Texan.'' Brokaw said that political blame should be distributed more broadly.

Yet there are "scientists" on the payroll of the big polluters that are frequently featured on Christian television and conservative radio and TV, and John Stossel on ABC, with their "debunking" of global warming.

And then, there is the Bush regime!

I haven't seen "An Incovenient Truth" yet, but it is now showing at our "indie" theater and I plan to see it next weekend.

[Lisa]

16. well, Bush did say he's "the decider"

If Dubya himself wants to step forward and take responsibility for steering US policy on global warming away where most Americans seem to want it to go (and polls have consistently shown that Americans are concerned about this issue) ... Brokaw should call him on it.

[Neshanic]

17. That fourth paragragh is hysterical. I would of loved to be a fly

in the room on that meeting.

"Tom, you have done the greatest gerneration to death! We need a new hip thing for you, to connect with the kids and that internet thing!"

[stlsaxman]

19. "Joins Fight"?? more like "Jumps On Bandwagon"

''I thought there was too much of Gore, but that's not my call...." uh- Tom.... this is an Al Gore presentation that Al Gore researched, Al Gore wrote and Al Gore has given AT LEAST a thousand times.

Who would have been better to star in this film?