Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann called out the Marriott hotel in New York City’s Times Square after one of the many televisions in the gym was turned to Fox News.
“The Fitness center at your NYC Times Square hotel has TV fixed on ‘Fox News’— a network that promotes anti-American, pro-Russian propaganda,” he tweeted.
He also tweeted that “the manager of the facility says he can’t change the channel, it is set by [Marriott]” and “This is deeply offensive”:
Dear @Marriott: The Fitness center at your NYC Times Square hotel has TV fixed on “Fox News”— a network that promotes anti-American, pro-Russian propaganda. The manager of the facility says he can’t change the channel, it is set by you. This is deeply offensive. pic.twitter.com/z0bcIndolI
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 9, 2022
The above tweet went viral, of course, with over 22,000 likes. But — SURPRISE — leaving this one television on Fox News is not the actual policy of the hotel. . .
I am pleased to report that the manager of the hotel has gotten back to me and has informed me that this is NOT the policy of this @Marriott (i.e. to have a single, namely Fox, news channel on the TVs in the fitness facility as was the case yesterday). 🧵 https://t.co/MR54oVMsUM
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 10, 2022
. . .and — even better — guests can ask to have the channel changed:
He informed me that, contrary to what the presiding employee indicated yesterday, the channels CAN be changed in response to the requests of their guests (yesterday Fox was the only news channel; the rest were sports channels).
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 10, 2022
Mann is now calling on his minions to stand down from their attacks on the Marriott:
I take him at his word, and I am pleased to hear this. I So I do not hold this incident against either this Marriott hotel or the @Marriott chain, and neither should you.
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 10, 2022
All good now?
Kudos to the manager of the hotel for reaching out to me. 👍
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 10, 2022
Of course, he played the “anti-American, pro-Russian propaganda” card:
It's not news that establishment American liberalism and a good chunk of their junior varsity left-wing vassals have adopted McCarthyite rhetoric for all their political opponents. Leave aside @MichaelEMann's "pro-Russia" cliché. How is Fox "anti-American"? They criticize Biden? pic.twitter.com/K4dpgxnwJf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 10, 2022
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