Outdoor set of NBC's Olympic broadcast is air-conditioned?
While Beijing has been undergoing major efforts (some admirable, some totalitarian) to make their self-proclaimed "Green Olympics" live up to its name, NBC has been happy to cover it all: the smog, the green buildings, and, most importantly, the games -- from an air-conditioned outdoor set. Apparently, the Beijing sets of both NBC's Nightly News and Today are both air-conditioned, even though they are filmed outdoors. Doesn't seem very green does it? According to Matt Lauer and the other fragile NBC anchors, the wasteful A/C is what keeps life bearable in the humid heat of Beijing's "fog smog." All this, from the network that less than a year ago conducted a football pre-game show by candlelight in order to promote "going green." OK, nobody really took that for much more than a meaningless publicity stunt, but still -- do the blazing daytime highs in the low 80s really necessitate outdoor A/C? I'm not saying that they should do the broadcast by candlelight, but maybe they should consider moving the set inside.
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