While the Blogosphere gave NBC lots of grief last month–and rightly so, in our opinion–over its lurid, tabloid-style coverage of Cho Seung-Hui and Virginia Tech, somehow, as Mickey Kaus notes, this may be toning down the impact of the Nightly News just a little too much to compensate:
Slow news day? Don’t take it out on kf! Brian Williams just opened the Nightly News with this teaser:
Paper or plastic? What is the answer to that agonizing question in the checkout line?
Almost as exciting a story as the time Katie Couric chirped–also on NBC–”When I got this assignment I thought whoa, slow news day. But the importance of the sports bra to American women really cannot be overestimated can it?”
Filed under: Muggeridge's Law, Oh, That Liberal Media!
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