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Vermont Maple Syrup Producer Complains: NBC Edited My Remarks to Support ‘Global Warming’
newsbusters ^ | may 8, 2014 | sean long

Posted on 05/09/2014 4:25:23 PM PDT by lowbridge

While hyping the alleged effects on climate change, NBC’s May 6 “Nightly News” tried to localize the impact by citing a different problem in each region. The broadcast played a clip of Burr Morse, a seventh-generation maple syrup producer from Montpelier, Vermont, stating that this season’s weather had been too warm. Contrary to this clip’s implications, Morse told the MRC’s Business and Media Institute that cold weather actually did more to harm this year’s maple syrup season.

Morse complained that NBC had selected a short sample of his full remarks to “support their point which was global warming.” Morse said he didn’t want “to be the cause of any hysteria,” emphasizing that he is confident in the future of the maple syrup industry and its ability to “circumvent the weather with technology.”

NBC White House Correspondent Peter Alexander told “Nightly News” that “Short winters are already harming Vermont maple syrup famer Burr Morse.” Then, NBC played a clip of Morse saying “It didn’t quite get cold enough at night.”

Anybody who spent the 2013/14 winter on the East Coast should immediately have become suspicious as the winter remained cold through March, incidentally when the maple syrup harvest typically begins.

In fact, Morse claimed that winter “hung on a month longer than it usually does.” Because of this lingering cold, Morse started tapping his maple trees in April instead of March. By April, however, the nights were slightly too warm for the ideal 20 degree temperature, hence the actual context for NBC’s excerpt.

Rather than suffering from the heat, Morse described this season’s primary hardship as cold, saying a “big part of the season was that it was too cold.”

Morse expressed distaste for the way NBC handled his remarks

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; globalwarming; mediabias; msm

1 posted on 05/09/2014 4:25:23 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Big Business is fully behind pushing climate change. How much longer will it be legal not to believe in it?


2 posted on 05/09/2014 4:28:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

That report was a “Cheap Trick”

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3 posted on 05/09/2014 4:33:15 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: lowbridge

If Mother Nature got a good lawyer she could sue NBC for libel.


4 posted on 05/09/2014 4:37:04 PM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: lowbridge
Let me see if I have this straight. NBC edited a story so it came out opposite of what the interviewee said. Pretty hard to believe.

It's even harder to believe that ANYONE gets ANY news information from NBC. You would get better information asking the homeless guy on the exit ramp from the freeway near my house for an eye witness account of anything anywhere in the world.

5 posted on 05/09/2014 4:37:06 PM PDT by stevem
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To: lowbridge

What did he expect?


6 posted on 05/09/2014 4:38:32 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: lowbridge

When you talk to the MSM, you have to realize, you are talking to the enemy. Best to not talk at all.


7 posted on 05/09/2014 6:19:56 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: stevem
Pretty hard to believe.

Um.. no, not really.

8 posted on 05/09/2014 6:24:38 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: lowbridge

I have been to the Morse farm and purchased their product.


9 posted on 05/09/2014 6:37:39 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: lowbridge

It doesn’t matter if if is too warm or too cold...it is now called climate change, see? No matter what the earth is doing, it’s our fault.


10 posted on 05/09/2014 6:41:35 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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11 posted on 05/09/2014 7:59:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Of COURSE bacon is good for you!!!)
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To: SERKIT
It doesn’t matter if if is too warm or too cold...it is now called climate change, see?

No. The newest term is CLIMATE DISRUPTION.

Now every single local weather event can be attributed to human activity.

12 posted on 05/09/2014 7:59:28 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: lowbridge

It would be easier - and just as dishonest - if NBC hired actors to pretend they’re regular citizen.


13 posted on 05/09/2014 8:18:00 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Are we finally going to get a smidgen of truth? - - Freeper Veto!)
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To: Fiji Hill

I’ve been to paradise, but I’ve never been to me


14 posted on 05/10/2014 9:49:40 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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