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Media Quack Calls Meteorologist "Pornographer" for Reporting the Weather
Avid news watcher and "consultant" Andrew Tyndall called ABC News meteorologist Ginger Zee a "pornographer" on Friday because she spends all her time on television talking about the weather instead of using her weather segment to talk about climate change. What nerve she has for doing her job!
The AP wire story—"Weather porn? Storms take over evening news"—explores whether or not the media's recent uptick in weather talk is related to hype and a play for ratings rather than a renewed interest in science. (Hint: they conclude it's half-and-half.) Tyndall focused his half-baked opinion on Ginger Zee, whom you may remember delivered a glorious smackdown to a sexist jerk earlier this summer after he called her "the most ugly weather girl i.v seen on tv."
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Tyndall's qualifications to make such statements include the fact that he "has personally watched every single weekday network nightly newscast since the summer of 1987."
The AP wire story—"Weather porn? Storms take over evening news"—explores whether or not the media's recent uptick in weather talk is related to hype and a play for ratings rather than a renewed interest in science. (Hint: they conclude it's half-and-half.) Tyndall focused his half-baked opinion on Ginger Zee, whom you may remember delivered a glorious smackdown to a sexist jerk earlier this summer after he called her "the most ugly weather girl i.v seen on tv."
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Tyndall's qualifications to make such statements include the fact that he "has personally watched every single weekday network nightly newscast since the summer of 1987."
http://thevane.gawker.com/media-quack-calls-meteorologist-pornographer-for-repo-1671920768
