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Showing posts with label NBC. Show all posts

2.12.2013

Jack Donaghy would be pleased



GE to sell rest of NBC stake to Comcast for $16.7 billion
Excerpt:


General Electric Co said on Tuesday that it would sell the remainder of its stake in NBC Universal to Comcast Corp for $16.7 billion in cash, debt and stock. The largest U.S. conglomerate said it had raised its authorized stock buyback to $35 billion and plans to buy back $10 billion worth of shares in 2013.
Comment: Jack Donaghy / GE connection

4.01.2012

How NBC inflamed the Trayvon Martin case

NBC to do ‘internal investigation’ on Zimmerman segment

NBC's edited account

 Excerpt:



The difference between what “Today” put on its air and the actual tape? Complete: In the “Today” version, Zimmerman volunteered that this person “looks black,” a sequence of events that would more readily paint Zimmerman as a racial profiler. In reality’s version, Zimmerman simply answered a question about the race of the person whom he was reporting to the police. Nothing prejudicial at all in responding to such an inquiry.
Actual event:
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