Media frauds trip themselves up

Posted on May 5, 2008

North Pole fables: “On the NBC nightly news there was a heart-throb report of an attractive British teen-ager who had skied across the North Pole with her father to demonstrate how the Arctic ice pack is receding in the face of global warming. Oh, horror. Oh, how terrible. The pictures were beautiful: Her pretty face, her gentle smile, her soft voice, her snow-crusted parka, the blue skies, the brilliant white ice, the cascading chunks of ice calving from glaciers, the two penguins standing on an ice floe…. Wait a minute. Penguins? At the North Pole? Not that we ever heard of. So much for science, as reported by NBC News. [See the video concerned here]

A commenter on the above adds: “Actual photo below from my journey to the lowland rainforests of Nepal, where the penguins have all been killed for their ivory tusks”

[For any products of a modern education reading here, the South Pole has penguins but no bears and the North pole has bears but no penguins]

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