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Gingrich: LGBT rights fight ‘one sided’ because Catholics are oppressed too
Former Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Sunday said that the debate over rights for LGBT people was “one sided” because Catholics were also being oppressed. During a panel discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press about gay NBA player Jason Collins, Gingrich quickly tried to change the subject from equal…
NBC station fires anchor whose first words on air were ‘f*cking sh*t’
A North Dakota NBC affiliate has fired its newest anchor after he started his new job by uttering the words “fucking shit” as the weekend news broadcast began. As anchor Van Tieu was introducing A.J. Clemente for his first ever KFYR-TV broadcast on Sunday, he could be heard uttering the…
Philadelphia police hunt for 4 men who allegedly gang raped college student
Philadelphia police have ordered a manhunt for four men who reportedly picked up a LaSalle University student just off campus and gang raped her, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia. The 20-year-old woman told police she was walking about a mile from campus at 10 p.m. on Easter Sunday when she…
Jimmy Fallon to replace Leno as NBC’s ‘Tonight Show’ moves to New York
NBC has committed to moving The Tonight Show to New York and replacing longtime host Jay Leno with current Late Night host Jimmy Fallon. The New York Times on Wednesday reported that the network had not decided on an exact timetable to move back from Burbank, California to the city…
O’Reilly screams at CNN host for pointing out embarassingly wrong drone claim
After dueling editorial comments about each other earlier in the week, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and CNN host Howard Kurtz finally sat down Wednesday night to hash out their dispute over whether O’Reilly got it wrong when he criticized NBC for failing to talk about Obama’s use of drones,…
NBC reporter on leaked memo: Obama admin. using ‘elastic’ definitions to justify drones
NBC News correspondent Michael Isikoff said Monday the Obama administration was using murky legal definitions to justify its use of drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists. “Remember, we are talking about targeted killings of Americans, we are talking about making decisions based on secret intelligence, and we see in this…
David Brooks on the fiscal cliff: GOP has a brain freeze
New York Times columnist David Brooks on Sunday said Republicans had prevented a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff because the party was at odds with itself. “What’s happening in Washington right now is pathetic. When you think about what the revolutionary generation did, what the civil war generation…
DC police investigating ‘Meet the Press’ host over holding assault rifle ammo during NRA interview
Update (below): NBC’s request to display magazine was denied by police Second update (below): Report says Gregory had permission from federal agency The Washington, D.C. police are investigating NBC host David Gregory over his public display of an assault rifle magazine on Sunday’s broadcast of “Meet the Press,” Politico reported…
Kidnapped NBC journalist Richard Engel and crew freed after firefight in Syria
After five-day ordeal, US network’s chief foreign correspondent and his crew are unharmed Richard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for the US network NBC and members of his team, have been freed unharmed from their Syrian captors after a firefight. They had been held for five days. The group disappeared…
NY Post photographer: ‘There was no way’ I could have saved subway victim
The photojournalist who captured a man’s impending death for the New York Post’s Tuesday edition defended his decision on NBC’s Today Show Wednesday, saying he couldn’t have saved the victim, Ki-Suk Han, from being hit and killed by a subway train. “If this thing happened again, with the same circumstances,…
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