Ed, I think I know what’s more likely to be the NBC news story that comes from this misadventure.

This is, after all, the same network which in the span of six months this year used footage of polar bears to add emotional heft to a package on the melting Antarctic — the news value of that being: How the heck did those bears get to the other end of the planet from where they live? — and used penguins in a subsequent, similar piece on the Arctic. Good grief.

It just makes sense to follow up with a report on the horrors of how our tuxedoed, flightless friends are apparently disappearing from the North Pole.