{"id":165526,"date":"2010-01-11T08:41:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4855"},"modified":"2010-01-11T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:41:54","slug":"why-don%e2%80%99t-tv-weathermen-believe-in-climate-change-by-charles-homans-columbia-journalism-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/165526","title":{"rendered":"Why don\u2019t TV weathermen believe in climate change? by Charles Homans, Columbia Journalism Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The small makeup room off the main floor of KUSI\u2019s studios, in a suburban canyon on the north end of San Diego, has seen better days. The carpet is stained; the couch sags. John Coleman, KUSI\u2019s weatherman, pulls off the brown sweatshirt he has been wearing over his shirt and tie all day and appraises himself in the mirror, smoothing back his white hair and opening a makeup kit. \u201cI kid that I have to use a trowel, to fill the crevasses of age,\u201d he says, swiping powder under one eye and then the other. \u201cPeople have tried to convince me to use more advanced makeup, but I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t try to fool anyone.\u201d <\/p>\n

Coleman is seventy-five years old, and looks it, which is refreshing in the Dorian Gray-like environs of television news. He refers to his position at KUSI, a modestly eccentric independent station in San Diego whose evening newscast usually runs fifth out of five in the local market, as his retirement job. When he steps in front of the green screen, it\u2019s clear why he has chosen it over actual retirement; in front of the camera he moves, if not quite like a man half his age, then at least like a man three quarters of it. His eyes light up, and the slight stoop with which he otherwise carries himself disappears. His rumble of a voice evens out into a theatrical baritone, full of the practiced jocularity of someone who has spent all but the first nineteen years of his life on TV.<\/p>\n

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Source: cjr.org<\/p>\n

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