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Tons of readers are sending me ex-NBC/Dateline reporter John Hockenberry’s new piece in Technology Review spilling the beans on his travails at the Peacock Network. Quick version: NBC News sucks because management doesn’t get how to use technology; news executives are a cowardly herd of unoriginal thinkers; GE empty suits blocked him from reporting on [...]

***scroll for updates…a reminder about Reuters’ news-gathering policy from the Reuters website: “Our policy is to send news to our customers only after scrutiny by a group of production editors who ensure quality standards are maintained across all our news services. When we get something wrong, our policy is to be honest about errors and [...]

Down Under, an Australian Katie Couric wannabe got busted by a Brigadier General who didn’t go along with her MSM stage managers. Background here.
I’d like to see more of that pushback here in the U.S.
Anyway, the face-off between the general and the bubblehead is my video clip of the week–along with some classic stage-the-news moments. [...]

Narrow-minded, Bigoted, and Condescending. – Jim Treacher

Nothing But Crass. – Lucianne.com commenter RayLRiv.
National Broadcasting Caliphate. – Craig H.
No Brain Capacity. – R. Carty
Nimrods Bearing Credentials. – Flip
Feel free to play along.
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And here’s NBC Dateline host Stone Phillips at a NY fashion week event last year (via TVNewser):

Was he being sent undercover, too?
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Thomas Lifson: “Sometimes I [...]

I’ll be on The O’Reilly Factor tonight at around 8:20pm EST talking about NBC, NASCAR, and news stings.
Update: Here’s the video (hat tip: Allah)…

Download and watch it (.wmv file).
Quip of the day from Jim Treacher:
I figured out why Couric is moving to CBS: She’s going undercover for Dateline as a “journalist”!
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NASCAR smacks down NBC
News sting [...]

I spoke this afternoon with Ramsey Poston, managing director of corporate communications at NASCAR. He’s on his way down to Texas for the NASCAR race this weekend, and he responded to NBC Dateline’s undercover Muslim stings, which I first reported on yesterday morning.
“This is outrageous for a news organization with the reputation of NBC to [...]

***update: a reader sends another message notifying Muslim activists that taping will take place April 8…see below…update: NBC confirms Dateline is working on the story…***
A source who monitors political e-mail lists sent me an intriguing message disseminated last week, which involved an apparent Dateline NBC solicitation to Muslim groups. Check this out:

Date: Mon, 27 Mar [...]

What’s wrong with this picture? (Click on it to expand.)

Thomas Lifson points out the obvious. (Hat tip: Lucianne.)
More from Jeff Taylor and FR.
Looks like the Times wants to secure its position as 2006 Idiotarian of the Year early.
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The only thing that would have made this staged news better: A canoe.