No, People Don't Have To Watch The Sunrise On TV In China
'Sunrise' in Beijing NewsClips247 / YouTube Rise and glow! In addition to the dull lightening of smog that now denotes morning in the polluted city of Beijing, the glow of an electronic rising sun on television has been added to simulate the real thing... or so news reports from the Daily Mail and others would have you believe, with headlines like "China starts televising the sunset on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog." As Quartz and others have noted, however, this is false. The image of the giant sun (above) was part of a tourism commerical, and the sun only appears for about 10 seconds. It is also shown regardless of weather conditions. Nevertheless, the smog really is terrible in Beijing. As Climate Progress reports: On Thursday [Jan. 16], the city issued its first warning of the year for a wave of dangerous...