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Al Roker: Hurricane Sandy could have electoral impact
As Hurricane Sandy continued to march toward the East coast, NBC meteorologist Al Roker suggested Sunday the “Frankenstorm” could impact the Nov. 6 U.S. presidential election. The storm, which Roker said measures about 1,000 miles in diameter, is expected to make landfall on the New Jersey coast late Monday night…
Ann Romney flip-flops: ‘We have not had a financial struggle in our lives’
During her Republican National Convention speech last month, Ann Romney suggested that she and her husband had once been so poor that they “ate a lot of pasta and Tuna fish” and their “dining room table was a fold down ironing board.” In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC,…
Same-sex sitcom pulled from Mormon-owned station
The NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah, won’t show a new sitcom based around a same-sex couple’s adoption process. Jeff Simpson, CEO of Bonneville International, which owns KSL-TV, told The Salt Lake Tribune that his organization sometimes struggles with programming because of content issues, and that the show, The…
Nobel winners press NBC to cancel Wesley Clark’s war-based ‘reality’ show
Nine Nobel Peace prize winners said Monday that NBC must “immediately” drop a planned “reality” show called “Stars Earn Stripes,” where former four-star general and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark sends celebrities on military-style training “missions” to entertain viewers. Signers of an open letter to the network include Nobelists…
NBC bows to pressure, will live-stream Olympics closing ceremony
Olympic broadcaster NBC has bowed to pressure and agreed to stream the Games’ closing ceremony live. In a change of plan, the network will air London’s farewell to the quadrennial event in real time on its website. It comes two weeks after company bosses came in for a torrent of…
Twitter confronts ethical concerns after NBC critic controversy
In January 2011 Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, together with the site’s “trust and safety” arbiter Alex Macgillivray, posted a paean to freedom of expression under the portentous title: The Tweets Must Flow. They promised they would respect everyone’s human right to unimpeded speech, vowing only to remove tweets that were illegal,…
NBC exec: Twitter told us how to get journalist suspended
UPDATE BELOW: Guy Adams’ account has been reinstated. Twitter alerted NBC to a post containing an executive’s email address, prompting NBC to file a complaint that lead to the suspension of a reporter’s Twitter account, according to The Telegraph. “Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter,”…
Twitter suspends journalist’s account for revealing NBC executive’s email
Twitter suspended the account of one of the heavier critics of NBC’s Olympics Games coverage Monday, but it might have violated its own guidelines in doing so. According to Mashable, newspaper correspondent Guy Adams’ account was shut down after he tweeted the corporate email address of NBC Olympics head Gary…
NBC catches more online criticism as Olympic streams falter
Even though airing the London Olympics opening ceremonies on tape delay helped NBC set a ratings record, that hasn’t spared the network from being roundly criticized in media circles for its coverage. Saturday, according to Yahoo! Sports, the network’s much-vaunted live-stream coverage presented users with obstacles during the 400 meters…
Americans not allowed to watch Olympics opening ceremonies live
WASHINGTON — A billion people across the globe turned on their TVs to watch the opening ceremony of the London Olympics live Friday, but very few of them were in United States. With comments about Danny Boyle’s extravaganza Britannica pinging back and forth across the world via Twitter, Facebook and…
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