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“Live Earth”: A “foul-mouthed flop”
Bbbbbut, they did it to save the world:
Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop.
Organisers of the global music concert – punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers – had predicted massive viewing figures.
But BBC’s live afternoon television coverage attracted an average British audience of just 900,000.
In the evening, when coverage switched from BBC2 to BBC1, the figure rose to just 2.7million.
And the peak audience, which came when Madonna sang at Wembley, was a dismal 4.5million. Three times as many viewers saw the Princess Diana tribute on the same channel six days before.
Two years ago, Live 8 drew a peak television audience of 9.6million while Live Aid notched 10million in 1985.
The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday’s good weather and said its Wimbledon tennis coverage had drawn away afternoon viewers.
Critics said however that the public had simply snubbed what they saw as a hypocritical event.
Musicians including Bob Geldof, Roger Daltrey and the Pet Shop Boys pointed out that a concert highlighting climate change had itself generated huge carbon emissions.
Performers were criticised for flying to concerts that were staged simultaneously on seven continents.
The BBC’s coverage, which ran for 15 hours from 12.30pm on Saturday to 4am yesterday, also sparked dozens of complaints about bad language.
The swearing started at 1.30pm when Phil Collins, the first act on in London, used the f-word while singing with his band Genesis.
Van Helsing at Moonbattery speculates that the lower than expected attendance for the “Live Earth” concerts could possibly be blamed on the 2007 Amazing Roswell UFO Festival, which started Thursdsay in New Mexico.
For more laughs, Mark Finkelstein reports on one journalist’s seeming obsession with touching the Goracle during a “Live Earth” interview. Gives to meaning to the phrase “Brush with greatness” (assuming one thinks that the Goracle is “great”).
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I think all that hot air contributes to global warming.
I didn’t watch any of the “Live Earth” broadcast – it’s not my kind of entertainment. These events don’t have any lasting, meaningful effect on anything. Hoping the weenie and t-shirt vendors did well.
I heard that the Dave Matthews Band travels with 7 tour busses(one for each member), one more for the roadies, and a tractor-trailer for the equipment.
A huge load of bollox, end of story. Most people know this and value their time enough not to waste it on pompous hypocritical celebrities who go around preaching from their private jets and buses. Screw!
The celebrities are out there telling us to conserve energy and they are the worst offenders. I’m all for conserving energy and can’t stand to see waste, but, I really think these celebs should be avoiding this issue because it sheds light on how terrible they are when it comes to conservation.
My Favorite quote about this idiocy was, “we have to use carbon to save carbon”. Isn’t that alot like “We had to destroy the village in order to save the village” Vietnam quote?? Hello Kettle, this is the pot calling. – Lorica
One more thing, Al Gore is out there telling people about there carbon footprint. After reading that his carbon footprint is giant, shouldn’t they fire him as a spokesman. Maybe they could get Laura Bush as a spokesperson, as the Bush Ranch has proven to be eco-friendly.
Got a chuckle from a Glenn Beck email title”
July 9th: Live Earth, Dead Audience
Part of the message:
Ha!!
I think that one of the reasons “Live Earth” was not that big was because people at home could not get
involved personally.At “Live Aid” viewers could call in and donate money and feel like they had accomplished something good.It also was billed as a concert to “raise awareness” about Global Warming.But Global Warming is all we’ve been hearing about for a long period of time.If people are not aware of it by now,they never will be.Thank you.