Thursday, March 10, 2005
An Update To My Daily Show Posting
I posted an entry last week about the Daily Show comment on an NBC news story that "unmasked" an important Iraqi judge. Well I was catching up on my DVR-stored programs, and they talked about this on Monday (or was it Tuesday?).
Their regular guest was grounded in DC due to the snow storm ... so they managed Brian Williams ... who went to great lengths to explain why NBC had got it wrong (bad intel from US Government "sources"). He also got a newspaper clipping from The New York Times that talked about the judge, and that included a photo of the said judge. Also, NBC corrected itself in time for their broadcasts to the other regions, so the error was localized to the East Coast broadcast only ... and they made the apology the next day.
Is it odd that NBC News has to defend itself against a cable network fake news show? Man, that must've been a boost to the egos of everyone at The Daily Show!
Their regular guest was grounded in DC due to the snow storm ... so they managed Brian Williams ... who went to great lengths to explain why NBC had got it wrong (bad intel from US Government "sources"). He also got a newspaper clipping from The New York Times that talked about the judge, and that included a photo of the said judge. Also, NBC corrected itself in time for their broadcasts to the other regions, so the error was localized to the East Coast broadcast only ... and they made the apology the next day.
Is it odd that NBC News has to defend itself against a cable network fake news show? Man, that must've been a boost to the egos of everyone at The Daily Show!
