Brian Williams: Conscience and credibility
When I pretend everything is what I want it to be I look exactly like what you had always wanted to see ~ Linkin Park, “Lying from You” Continue reading Brian Williams: Conscience and credibility
Category: NBC
Olympics broadcast schedules
A suggestion for Olympics TV broadcast schedules: Check out the NBC schedule. It tells you exactly what’s on now and on which channel, with precise start times. If you sort it by sport, it tells you which broadcasts are live. And you can scroll forward to find upcoming broadcasts. Continue reading Olympics broadcast schedules
NBC and its ‘godless’ U.S. Open
Had I watched the U.S. Open over the weekend, I might have seen the little patriotic montage that NBC ran. But I doubt I would have noticed what seems to have upset a lot of people — the scenes were pieced together in a way that skipped the phrase “under God” when the Pledge of … Continue reading NBC and its ‘godless’ U.S. Open
NBC opens Olympics with death video
Launching its coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremonies this evening, NBC took the low road. In the first ten minutes of an eagerly awaited family television event, during the dinner hour, NBC ran the video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s fatal luge crash. Twice. I was absolutely appalled. Not an hour before, I’d been on … Continue reading NBC opens Olympics with death video
Matthews-Olbermann circus shut down by MSNBC
I’m taking entirely too much pleasure in hearing today that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann have been been spanked by MSNBC for their anchoring of the national political conventions in the last couple of weeks. The FoxNews people were positively gloating over it. (Kudos to CNN for not mentioning it, at least not while I … Continue reading Matthews-Olbermann circus shut down by MSNBC
And you thought the Olympics were about sports! Ha!
I first became aware of Slate’s Olympic Sap-o-Meter a few days ago, and have become a huge fan. It’s wonderful that someone thought to do this kind of Olympic coverage. The Sap-o-Meter keeps a daily count of all the sappy words used by NBC’s Olympic announcers — Mom, dream, and sacrifice, for example — and … Continue reading And you thought the Olympics were about sports! Ha!