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TV Emmy Academy Vetoes Fox’s Green Carpet Plan

August 7, 2007 3:28 PM

In a move that would have parted with decades of broadcast tradition, Fox wanted to roll out a green carpet during its presentation of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards. But the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which considers the traditional red carpet an iconic part of its brand, overruled Fox's request earlier today.

Changing the carpet color was an unannounced part of Fox's green-themed Emmy Awards presentation strategy, which includes employing hybrid vehicles for event transportation, using recycled materials and reducing carbon emissions from the production.

Fox pushed for the attention-getting switch as part of parent company News Corp.'s initiative to combat global warming and promote eco-friendly concepts, but the network was met with strong resistance from the more traditional Academy.

"They are so bound by 'this is how it's always done' that it's like moving mountains trying to get them to agree,” a production insider says.

An Academy insider said their carpet verdict has gone back and forth in recent weeks as the parties debated the plan. "It was red, then it was green, then it was red again," a source says.

The Academy claims sponsor Macy's denied the request, sources say, insisting the carpet remain red since the color matches the store’s signage. Switching the carpet might also have impacted arrivals coverage specials that are traditionally titled and marketed using the "red carpet" brand.

Though Fox was denied a green carpet, the network still convinced the Academy to have a “green” carpet—as in eco-friendly. The carpet will be made from recycled material and donated to a school or library after the event.

CarpetGate Update: A silly story just got sillier. Some representatives now say Fox's proposed recyclable, eco-themed carpet looked more blue than green -- which, follows their implication, makes the veto less of an eco rejection.

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Comments (153)

Barney Burgis:

A green carpet would also have allowed FOX to "Chroma Key" or "Green Screen" logos, images and advertising onto the surface of the carpet in the background behind celebrities. I'm certain FOX wouldn't have even thought of doing that, or would they?

Ray:

Green is the aids ribbon of the 2000's.

Gary Pate:

Man, the extent these idiots will go to on the "Global Warming" bandwagon.

Climate change is constantly happening & will happen long after man is gone from this earth. Get used to it & adapt like our ancestors did. We can't change the Sun (the cause of climate change)

The sooner we stop listening to hypocrites like Gore & his ilk, the sooner we can go back to productive lives..

Mr Jones:

It is not neccessary to have a green carpet to "Chroma Key". Nice conspiracy theory though....

John Preston:

Lemmings, Lemming they are all a bunch of f------ Lemmings

Elicktrikul Injuneer:

You can chroma key on any color. Therefore it is a safe bet that they were not thinking of doing that.

But thank you for dutifully making a jab at one of the few networks who's news coverage includes material other than what comes off the DNC fax, as you have been programmed to do. Good sheep.

Hey...isn't FOX that rignt wing outfit that's supposed to be finding a way to destroy the environment? What is this world coming to?

joe:

If they are interested in being green why don't they just cancel the whole thing. The entire thing seems like a waste of resources to me.

Actually they don't need the green to key in ads or graphics.Watch a lot of sporting events,they use "virtual" signage with the same technology that they use for the NFL games,that show the scrimage line.
Just thought I'd toss that

Last Exit:

Who gives a crap what color carpet the pompous whiners walk on???

CT:

CrosSwords, it's quite obvious you don't watch FOX. Enjoy your Kool-Aid.

Dan :

they should never have asked!
"Its much easier to get Forgiveness, then Permission!"

all gorey:

I sayed.... ahh fogetit

@Gary Pate: if the sun was the lone cause of climate change, the changes we're experiencing would look a lot different.

You're right that we have to adapt, though.

I'm sorry, did I hurt your world view?

oswald czolgosz:

You should see the new billboard in Calgary, Canada. It makes a mockery of Al Gore and his lifestyle, as compared to what he advocates for the rest of us!

veritas:

Some people **cough cough Barney Burgis cough cough** are so damn full of hatred for all things Fox, Conservatives and Republicans that they come up with some incredibly nutty conspiracy theories.

oswald czolgosz:

But then what would I know, I'm just some weirdo with a weird name...

DOUGLAS:

The Green carpet idea was in comparrison much like red ribbons.

It wasnt because of the way the carpet was made.

and so what if Fox advertises on it? It's their right!

CJR:

Of course they did it in Calagry. The Oil Capital of the North. I've been there and without Oil they'd be Tundra or at least permafrost. Alternate fuels are the enemy of Oil obviously so Gore therefore is an easy target.

E-Rock:

You are all sheep.

Karla:

Touche' joe. But since they won't cancel the whole thing, I'll do my part by simply not watching.

Erin:

If you don't think the Jews run the media - count how long it takes this message to be erased. I lived in Israel 6 months and they were nice to me...
OK, start counting

Erin:

5 minutes
C'mon moderator, I can hear you scratching your head from here! You're saying "what am I missing?" Read it again, I'll hold on...

(cue music from Jeopardy)

James:

Besides the envirowhacky nonsense about it all...who the heck watches the Emmy Awards?

James:

But now the Tonys - that a different thing sweetheart

Divine:

James, I'll swap you a Tony Soprano for a Tony Orlando any old day!

Horst:

Erin, i don't see how you can make comments like you did and get away with it. And what made those upstanding God-fearing well educated Germans do what they did is beyond me. How could they have done all that and why?

Trevor:

how about not have the emmys. that will stop the entire carbon footprint. i hate these people.

Trevor:

And I hate myself! Whoops...

RE:

The sun causes global warming

Erin:

Horst, I think just because you have a reason to do something doesn't give you the excuse to do it - does it? I mean look at all those 9/11 guys, I mean how could you hate someone so much to kill yourself - I'd kill the other guy not myself.

Bob:

I agree with RE, today it was cloudy and it wasn't nearly as warm as yesterday which was sunny. thank you

The real Trevor:

Blow me you lefty tool.

Mckinley's Ghost:

Czolgosz huh? Cute. Not foreshadowing anything, are you?

no I'm the real Trevor not him!:

And I'm farther to the right than Atilla the Hun. Look up right in the Funk and ..well you know - there's a picture of me. Carbon footprint? I don't even know what that is. And furthermore all my bank accounts are in Panama, is that right enough for ya?

Will I'm not:

Erin quit going on about 9/11. It's aways 9/11 this 9/11 that, get over it! Move on! What about that Cuban kid that they grabbed out of Florida - they forgot about him didn't they? And the little kid who fell down a well? I think she's even married now. After all didn't Bob Seeger say "Turn the page" ??

Skitch:

What a bunch of hypocrites. The Academy, along with the rest of those afflicted with BDS, have consistantly attempted to portray the right as mouth breathing neandrethals. Fox has long been in their crosshairs. The moment their feet are held to the fire they show their true colors. The left is once again exposed as liars, telling everyone else to be green but the only green they care about is money.

Only Libs and homosexuals (let's face it, they're the same thing)care about the Emmy Awards.

No red-blooded, God-fearing American would ever watch such limp-wristed programming.

texassoccer:

Kudos to the Hollywood liberals, aka The Academy, for banning the green-themed carpet which was supposed to serve as a subconscious visual in the promotion of global warming....

Torossian:

The green carpet would have been better for celebrities, by the way. The red actually makes people look fat on camera by flattening the curves in the picture. The "camera adds 10lbs" thing is more apparent on a red carpet than on a green one.

If I were a celebrity I'd prefer most colors over red.

As for Fox, they should instead cut the head of their propaganda machine over on cable instead of making empty and inconsequential gestures towards solving the global warming issue. Make Hannity endorse Kyoto Protocol, screw the carpet color.

Charles Miller:

Global warming is a hoax. This "green initiative" is just a marketing ploy to move consumers into more expensive buying patterns.

Jinga Nasmas:

Amazing the lengths these idiots will go to SHOVE the FAKE Idea of man made global warming on us to enslave us all.

Remember folks, the green nuts want us in CAVES, with nothing.. then the earth will be "safe" from us.

Good for the Emmy's for not going that sickening shade of "green"

oswald czolgosz:

"Make Hannity endorse Kyoto Protocol"

Yeah - that's the Leftoid ticket. Make everybody toe the line to the watermelon agenda - Green on the outside, but Red on the inside.

Hmmm. There's that red & green mix again.

Silly BillyGoat:

I'd rather see Fox make Hannity shove a pineapple up Tom Cruise's a$$ than endorse Kyoto. Kyoto doesn't even include China or India, which is 1/3 of the world's population.

Tom Cruise come out of the closet!!

oswald czolgosz:

AL GORE IS A WARM MONGER!

MAN-MADE GLOBULL WARMING IS A HUGE HOAX!

AL GORE IS GETTING FILTHY RICH FROM HIS FALSE PROPHECIES!

An Inconvenient Fact - Occidental Petroleum & the Gore Family go way back!

An Inconvenient Fact - Gore owns a company that sells carbon offsets to suckers who believe his lies.

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore drives a Cadillac Escalade and not a Prius. Gore's daughter drives a v12 Lamborghini.

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore’s 10,000 square foot estate in Tennessee with an indoor swimming pool uses more energy per month than you do in one year. His other two homes use lots of energy too!

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore flies in private jets, lecturing us to reduce our carbon footprints by flying and driving less.

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore’s home in Carthage, Tennessee sits on a zinc mine receiving $20,000 a year in royalties from Pasminco Zinc – a company that pollutes the nearby Caney Fork River.

An Inconvenient Fact – Mars and Pluto are also warming up without any SUV’s and crude oil.

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore served endangered Chilean Sea Bass at his daughter’s wedding last month in Beverly Hills. He demanded a recount of the fish to learn if they really are endangered. Florida surfer Dude “Hangin’ Chad” is in charge of the recount. Then Gore bought “fish offsets” to feel less guilty from the company that sells “carbon offsets” – the one he himself owns.

An Inconvenient Fact – Gore dropped out of Divinity school, Journalism school and Law school – but he is now an expert in environmental studies with no degree?

WE ARE NOT BUYING WHAT AL GORE IS SELLING!

Try this link to see how crazy envirowhackos are:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/08/07/ex-clinton-official-did-global-warming-contribute-mn-bridge-collapse


oswald czolgosz:

BTW, my middle name is Booth.

paulnashtn:


I don't usually post, just read for entertainment but this post worries me
Am I just too stupid to understand ???
Global warming is the globe warming -- just HOW would/could it look any different no matter who or what is causing the warming????

Disclaimer -- I DO believe in global warming and I DO believe it to be a TOTALLY natural occurrence
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Green nutjob:
@Gary Pate: if the sun was the lone cause of climate change, the changes we're experiencing would look a lot different.

Silly BillyGoat:


Tom Cruise,
COME OUT OF THE CLOSET!! We know you are gay, not that there is anything wrong with it. homo....

....sapien. sike!

Silly BillyGoat:

Is James Hibbert really the doctor on the Simpsons?

Chuck:

"Ray: Green is the aids ribbon of the 2000's."

Clever Connection.

Lev:

I thought Hollywood types shaved their carpets and preferred bare floors.

I say make it green from all the puke that comes out of their wacked lefty mouths!

Jack:

All Greens sell out for the Green!

You Would:

Things to ponder:

1st- Who cares if Global Warming is man made/ a myth/ hoax/ or not even happening. What's the harm in being more harmonious with the Earth?

2nd- As far as I know, I don't know of any other media company other than News Corp. (Fox) that have pledged to be carbon neutral by 2010. They offer many incentives to employees and have made many changes on the lot to help them to their carbon neutral goal. People hate on Fox left and right, but at least they are putting their money where their mouth is. Come on Viacom.

Peace, Love, and Harmony.

TomRoberts in Tokyo:

I find it amazing that so many people out there, clearly 90% or more of the posts here show a deep disdain for celebrities, TV and movie actors/actresses. I can only assume this comes from the almost 8 years of Bush hatred that liberals in Hollywood have let shine thru with such veracity and open ended stupidity that they have hurt Hollywood for some time to come.

Can any of you recall a time in the past, pre Bush, when celebrities were disliked so much? I cannot. Their efforts to remove him and any republican, but particularly Bush, have backfired like nothing I have ever seen, since Stalin, Mao, or Hitler. Funny coincidence, that all of those also were liberals or socialists, focusing hatred and using divide and conquer on their own people.

Of course Hollywood liberals will blame the republicans for the mess they are in, boxoffice-wise, and popularity-wise. Sorry, it's just good ol' American common sense that's answering the dogma of out of control self righteous liberalism in our media. So, keep talking, Liberals. Keep whining, keep chastising us, keep telling us how great you are, and how dumb we are, keep showing us the way to your 'wisdom', because you are only exposing yourselves for what you are.

Compare how many actors from the golden age of Hollywood signed up for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines and/or supported the troops any way they could, and compare those overwhelming numbers with today's Hollywood, which is so busy in denegrating our troops, our leaders, and our nation's history to even think about helping. No, all they wish to do is hurt Bush, and they don't care how much damage they do to our nation, as long as it hurts Bush. They may not realize they are hurting our future. We have to suffer with them, ignore them with the pocketbook, until they are replaced with hopefully a better generation than Sean Penn, Decaprio, and Rosie and Maggie Cho. I'll take Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly any day over those talentless jokers.

Lou Stool:

The reason Fox News has such high ratings is that they don't have to share the stupid viewer. CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN all have to share the viewers who can actually use their brains. People who still think Saddam had WMD's watch Fox. People who think Atta met with an Iraqi in Prague, watch Fox. The 25% who still support Bush, watch Fox.

How is it that all the commentators on Fox News says Global warming is fake, but then the network is helping to fight global warming? Hmmmm

TomNotinToykyo but in NYC:

TominTokyo, you've got it half-right. The reason the Hollywood Left has been so easily villified is because the right wing has learned from the marketing and PR efforts of Hollywood: Lie constantly, construct fake narratives, play off the emotions of Good Americans who always want to believe the best about their countrymen, etc.

I'm amazed by the vitriol and ignorance in this thread. All the facts are out there: The only thing the Bush Administration does well is spin and create narratives. The run up to war, Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, right on back to the very first days of the adminstration when they successful lied their way into massive coverage about the trashing of the White House by the Clinton staff.

It's despairing how many people now put their ideology above their country. I'm not against conservatives, I hardly place faith in Democrats. But the Republican machine is nothing like the party I belonged to 15 years ago. And because of that, our country isn't, either. Enjoy these last few years (months? weeks?) of freedom, because the Bush Administration has been systematically setting up all the tools to take it away from you.

But why should you care? You're in Japan.

Mike:

Gore and his acolytes are making millions promoting global warming fear. One day it will be revealed for what it is; the greatest scam in history.

Fedaykinn:

It is hilarious to see all the right wing tools here talk about how FOX is balanced, how Global warming is a hoax to make money and blaming "liberals and homosexuals" for all the evils in the world.

You people are just as naive as those who you are trying to fight against...bot conservatives and liberals in the US are sheep who would repeat anything that their masters tell them to repeat.

The day you all wake up and realize that you are being used both by the same people, you are going to cry like children.

Amazed:

Good lord, nice to see how many people Bush and his monkeys have brainwashed. Anyone who thinks that 6 billion humans aren't effecting climate change by pumping so many chemicals in the environment were not paying attention during school. Didn't Bush recently flip-flop from denying climate change, to stating that it is a growing problem? I'm still surprised that Bush still has a 25% approval rating. Dance monkeys, dance! If that 25% ever comes in control, a world like Fahrenheit 451 is just around the corner.

Lou Stool's a Fool:

Lou, you truly are a stool.

CBS (Constant BS) revenue (an actual measure of who's watching) fell precipitously this year over last.

NYT subscriptions are declining. CNN, used to be the undisputed #1 on cable, can barely hang on to last place to keep from falling off the scale altogether.

Dumb? I think we see where dumb comes in here.

Tom In NYC? PS in STL:

Tom, hysterical. First, you state that the "right" is using the tactics of the left, "lie, fake narratives . . ." Now, if the left is lying, and the right is countering the lie, you mean they're countering a lie with a lie?

So, which is it?

I'll agree with you on the Repugnican party right now. Headless is what they are. No vision, no leader. But that is the same for the Demoncrats right now too.

But to sit there and claim that Bush is setting us up to take away the country, when you already have made the case that his detractors are lying, is quite funny.

What we need in this country is more people who can think rationally, logically, to pick apart the idiotic arguments offered by the political class (Biden, Schumer, Hagel, McCain . . .) Thank the NEA for creating a generation of Americans who can no longer think for themselves as anything other than how Curly did "I'm a victim of soicumstance."

Joe in Philly:

Global warming - prove it! Its all a theory just like the theory of evolution. Go ahead and teach it and research it but don't tax us on it until it is a proven fact.

In Singapore Al Gore said, "This is one of the strongest of scientific consensus views in the history of science,"

What is a scientific consensus view? Its an opinion that cannot yet be proven. Other scientific consensus views were, the sun rotates around the earth, the world is flat, warp speed, etc.

Science uses the "scientific method" Currently science cannot even agree as to how to determine a uniform global temperature (too many variables).

Science cannot prove imperically what amount of influence, percentage-wise, humanity's activities have to do with the consensus opinion (not fact) that the entire globe is warming.

In all of this, make your assertiions, be passionate about your beliefs, but for all of our sakes, don't allow our politicians to tax us on the basis of a "scientific consensus view"!

If you don't know where Island Grove it you should not comment on "global warming".
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House and Farm Yard at Cross Creek, Florida, was the home of the author of the same name from 1928 until 1942. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was born August 8, 1896, in Washington, D.C., where her father was an attorney for the U.S. Patent Office. After high school, Marjorie entered the University of Wisconsin, where she majored in English. Following graduation in 1918, she went to New York and obtained an editorial position with the National Board of the YWCA. In May 1919, Marjorie married Charles Rawlings, a classmate at the University of Wisconsin and a co-worker on the college literary magazine. Eventually both became newspaper reporters, first in Louisville, Kentucky, and then in Rochester, New York. Marjorie wrote feature articles for the Sunday supplement and became a syndicated poet. Wishing to find solitude to pursue her writing and in hopes of solving marital problems, in November 1928 they bought a 74-acre citrus farm near Island Grove, Florida.

A friend who is "well educated" said to me a few days ago,"They used to grow oranges near Jacksonville! My God I forgot that when hearing the global warming stuff".

Three tenths of one precent of "greenhouse gases" are made of of stuff that man could make. CO2 is wonderful and we need more! Gore depends on the Stupid. His fields are abundant!

mike Hunt:

I say make one out of the Koran and let them walk down that

Roy Smith:

I understand that Fox is pushing eating "recycled" foods,i.e. human feces & urine. Thank you Al Gore perverted Eco-Commie deviant!!!!!

Wonton:

The stupid Gore crowd trys to appear so morally superior with their "green" addiction. When Fox gives them a chance to follow it through - it's not a "tradition". They want us to change our life styles but can't change their tradition. What a bunch of crap.

Benson:

Make Hannity endorse Kyoto Protocol, screw the carpet color.

Posted by Torossian

Yeah, that's it. Make people fall in line with your beliefs. If the Kyoto Protocol is so important, maybe Clinton should've submitted it and pusher for ratification. Instead, he never sent it over.

Regarding the green chromo key thing, I repeat what others have said: You don't need green to chroma key.

Benson:

As for Fox, they should instead cut the head of their propaganda machine over on cable instead of making empty and inconsequential gestures towards solving the global warming issue.

Posted by Torossian

You mean like hosting concerts that produce so much carbon it'll take 100,000 trees to be planted, just to reverse the damage?

Fox's purpose was to raise awareness. Just like cancer walks don't actually stop cancer, they just raise awareness.

Funny how Hollywood finds it important for me to change my life, but they won't change their carpet for the same cause.

Hugh Jorgan:

I loved when the practitioners of the liberal arts screamed when the NYTimes "broke" the story on the overseas phone surveillance and the financial tracking of charitable organizations. They screamed that our civil liberties were being taken away and it was their god-given (sarcasm) right to participate in phone calls originating from terrorist friendly countries undisturbed. Who and how many Americans did this effect? I didn't hear of any group or person who was falsely accused, and something like that would have found it's way to any East Coast paper. Maybe it only effected people who wished to do harm to this country and its people? How many people's civil rights are going to be effected by limiting what we can drive? what we can eat? and what we can do for fun? That is what you should be screaming about. "But we are trying to save the environment" you say. As stated many times in this post, Global Warming is a theory not yet proven. It is somebody's atmospheric masters thesis that has run amuck. Terrorism is real and we need to deal with real problems. By the way, it is summer ITS SUPPOSED TO BE HOT!

Gore Lover...NOT!!!!!:

There is no doubt that the earth is warmer now, but this has occured thoughout the earths history as far back as we can study it.

It is the Gore types that can not understand this fact, but the real damage will occur when the taxes on "Global Warming" start getting passed by the present Dimo group now in the house and senate.

Doug:

Cancel the whole stupid Emmy thing, and save the carbons for something really important, like Al Gore,and Barbara Strisiann, and the rest of the global warming wacko nut cases who fly in private jets...just a thought

Fedaykinn:

to Joe in Philly:

Just so you get educated regarding your statement:

"Global warming - prove it! Its all a theory just like the theory of evolution. Go ahead and teach it and research it but don't tax us on it until it is a proven fact"

A Theory can be a fact, for example, evolution IS a fact (that we evolved from a common ape ancestor is not, but evolution as a process of nature IS a fact) or the Theory of Relativity, which is fact, unless you want to tell us that nukes or relative speeds of moving mass are bogus and don't exist.

Fedaykinn:

To Gore lover...NOT:

"There is no doubt that the earth is warmer now, but this has occured thoughout the earths history as far back as we can study it."

It is not a matter of earth warming up, it is a matter of the RATE of this heating up...as it would be as if it was cooling down more rapidly than ever before.

You are free to think that those factories pumping CO2 into the air are doing nothing to the earth's atmospheric balance, but deep inside you know that there will be negative effects to this, and no one rational doubts that.

Ross Graham:

With everything going on in the world, what do the Emmy's really matter? Much less, a carpet ...

Allen:

Al Gore, Global Warming and environmentalism are distractions. As the mass media creates climate illusions, Big Brother clamps down by opening our mail, suspending habeas corpus, stealing private lands, banning books like "America Deceived" from Amazon, rigging elections, conducting warrantless wiretaps and starting wars based on blatant lies. Soon, the sinking of an Aircraft Carrier(by Mossad) will occur and the US will 'retaliate' against Iran. Which AIPAC-lobbying country benefits from that? How much will the environment matter after a Nuke attack on Iran? Not much. Stop Iraq, Prevent Iran then work on the environment.
Last link (before Stark County District Library bends to gov't Will and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)

Jeff at the beach:

I was at the beach on the Isle of Palm yesterday and in only 6 hours the ocean came up 5 feet. I'm getting out of here in a hurry so I don't drown. It went back down again in another 6 hours but I'm not taking any chances. Gore is right and has people like me with superior intellect on his side. Gotta run, the ocean is coming back up.

Jeff at the beach:

Allen, you are so right, They banned another 2 books at the library this week. I've never read them but one was Huckelberry Finn and one was Tom Sawyer. We can't get rid of this facist Bush fast enough to stop this cencorship.

Joe in Philly:

Fedaykinn,

I agree that evolution is a fact to a point but it is still an unproven theory with respect to the "man from ape" leap of faith.

My point remains, if you tax an industry such as the oil industry for carbon emissions or the cattle industry for methane emissions based on this as yet to be proven theory that man and his SUVs are the straw that is breaking Mother Nature's back, I for one would like to see the proof before my wallet gets any thinner.