So NBC lies.
Nov 26th, 2005 by Mark
Gee I am so shocked. NBC news anchors lying. Say it ain’t so! Sorry, it is. For the few hundred who still think NBC is an honest and noble organization, it is time to wake up.
At the point in the broadcast when the “M&M’s Chocolate Candies” balloon was supposed to have crossed the finish line, announcers Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Al Roker stuck close to their scripts and the network ran footage of the balloon from last year’s parade.
Yep, stuck to the scripts and then used footage from last year to make you believe it was still in the parade and crossing the ‘finish line’. They didn’t even have enough respect to be honest with the viewer.
Couric told the audience they were seeing old footage and bantered with Lauer and Roker, but there was no further mention of the accident.
That’s nice. So we were to assume they had missed it coming across or the camera malfunctioned, but not told the truth. Why would they tell the truth? They never do.
“There was no further comment on air at that point in time because we did not have further information,” said Cameron Blanchard
Try this Cameron: go to Google News. I even provided a link for you. My favorite is this one: they should have been told.
“If it was possible for NBC’s cable network, MSNBC, to report the [Macy's parade] accident — before NBC’s own parade coverage ended — then someone should have gotten a word” to Matt Lauer and Katie Couric, Richard Huff says.
“Instead, NBC left Lauer and Couric journalistically dangling and, as a result, risked their credibility with viewers.”
No, you have to have credibility in order to risk it. That was never really a problem. What was a problem is the fact that the ‘talking heads’ did not have the brain power to deduce an accident had occurred, nor did the NBC clowns feel the need to inform the public, and last but not least they decided that “the show must go on”.
“Word from inside NBC was they stayed mum because no one told them what was going on. They just knew that the giant M&M’s balloon never made it to Herald Square…Couric didn’t learn about the accident until she was off the air, and Lauer apparently found out when he got home.”
So you are telling me that two of the biggest stars on NBC are not able to find out that an accident with a balloon has hurt two sisters while it is being reported on a sister network (MSNBC). Seems I am not the only one who feels this way.
The producers of the telecast are from the entertainment wing - not news - and apparently didn’t believe the incident deserved mention.
So if you are covering the Indy 500 and a car crashes, do you insert footage from last year? How about when a player gets injured in the Super Bowl or World Series? Do you insert footage from last year? Or how about … well you get the point.
The fact is, they thought they could cover this up and not have to be honest. Typical of the attitude of the lefty media types.
At best, this just goes to prove why news people should not be doing entertainment. The left believes that entertaining you is what you want, not news. This just proves that Katie and Matt are not really journalists. At worst this just proves how clue-less the majors have truly are.
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