And not a second too soon.  This was an incredibly stupid move by NBC management and, if anyone at GE has a brass set, someone or somebodies, at NBC, will be looking for a job on Monday.  I don't know what's worse, the act itself, or the absolute dumbass explanation.  There was never a policy preventing showing this ad. It was done by some liberal weenie who thought he found an excuse to rejecting it with the web address. You'd love someone to demand to see the written policy, which of course would leave them wetting their pants.  What a disgrace; I hope GE is proud of their dumbass network.

Pardon my cynicism but you think it may have dawned on NBC there's an election next year...

And that by all accounts the Democrats are outraising Republicans...

And that lots of liberal political groups with websites will be wanting to spend all that loot they got sloshing around..

And NBC would quite like those millions to slosh their bank accounts...

And even NBC couldn't be so brazen as to ban an inocuous ad from a conservative leaning group, and not do the same to the well funded leftist groups...

Only a world weary theory.

Check out my exclusive edit of BBC News America's interview with Mrs Clinton: It's news to me!

This is no victory in getting NBC to do what is AMERICAN and just finding out that some arse of a lawyer is acting like a Mao groupie.

Why does not the Moral Accountability Project instead file a complaint with the FCC in moving this to a Federal Court on the ground the FCC is not penalizing broadcasters who are not upholding the PUBLIC TRUST.

NBC has a broadcast license issued by the United States Government with terms that it must ALWAYS serve the public of the United States. That indeed means not doing things which deliberately antagonizing American citizens.........like not wearing flag pins "as it is American biased" or not running ads which are pro American Military.

NBC should not just be fined, but loose this multi billion dollar license and have it awarded or auctioned off to a list of bidders who will agree they will broadcast in the public interest.

File this with a Conservative Judge who will indeed have an appeal run through the DC Appeals Court and General Electric will loose millions challenging before they loose the billion dollar traitor network NBC.

What could be more satisfying than a Rush Limbaugh group of Conservatives purchasing the NBC license and having Keeter Olberman working for Rush.

Merry Christmas.

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These old media types constantly denigrate the web, claiming that the web can't match the reporting abilities of the old media. But it's beginning to become clear that the internet has one ability that the old media doesn't have, and never will  --- synthesis.

Here's what I mean by synthesis: it's the ability to notice, and tie together, any connections between events and stories. (Maybe others have a different name for it; synchronicity? perhaps) When you have three reporters who investigate a story, there's a limit to how many connections they'll notice. Even if you have a hundred reporters in a newsroom, there's a limit to how many connections they'll notice. And, because they all work under a hierarchy, the system makes it difficult for each reporter to notice what the other reporters are discovering.

The web is filled with millions of people paying attention. They're also disconnected, which means that there's no restriction on one observer picking up on something another observer noticed, and tying loose ends together. A newsroom is highly centralized, with information flowing through an editor. The internet, widely dispersed, pays no coordination cost.

• In any normal newsroom, what are the chances that a reporter would have known enough about fonts and typefaces to notice that the Rathergate documents were forgeries? But the web noticed it, because the web has millions of observers.
• Now, the internet is finding connections that the old media would never find, and the connections reveal the dysfunction (i.e., corruption) in the old media!

Brave new world, indeed!

Leave it to a guy named "Cotton" to give money to a bunch of Polyester Pantsuits.

But not anymore after this. I never watch MSNBC.

FOX has a new business channel, I guess CNBC isn't interested in their viewers anymore.

I think FOX's business channel is better.

It was way more than one person, I believe even a couple of the "Admin. clerks" for that Guard unit got involved and posted that CBS was doing a fake story.

It was MORE than type font too!

The format of the memo was copied from an Army memo, Army cira mid 1980s and no where near the format for an AIR FORCE memo of the 1970s, let alone 1980s or 1990s (Thank-you "Tongue and Quill"!!! )

President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard flying NORAD Air Defense Missions and sitting "hot" NORAD alerts.