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Was NBC's Nightly News Anchor, Brian Williams, Wrong To Broadcast This?

Was he wrong?

  • Yes

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No

    Votes: 11 84.6%
  • Other / I don'tknow

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Total voters
    13
In many ordinary circumstances, yes. However, this is a corporate news station with duties to promote its corporate office's programming. With the corporate body, the station develops a "family" persona, so any connection between himself and his daughter (or for that matter, any internal NBC employee going on to be on another NBC program) is usually going to be seen as a net positive rather than a negative. You could tell by how often the incident was reported as an "aww" moment rather than a "ugh" moment.
 
Was NBC's Nightly News Anchor, Brian Williams, Wrong To Broadcast This?

of course not. it's cute. beats the hell out of a lot of the negative bull****.
 
of course not. it's cute. beats the hell out of a lot of the negative bull****.

In other journalistic enterprises (like the paper presses) they try to separate that by removing the ability for one employee to comment or do their job in the direct service of their family member's image, and so on.
 
Nothing wrong at all and that picture was adorable. I wouldn't even have minded if he got even more personal about it.
 
In many ordinary circumstances, yes. However, this is a corporate news station with duties to promote its corporate office's programming. With the corporate body, the station develops a "family" persona, so any connection between himself and his daughter (or for that matter, any internal NBC employee going on to be on another NBC program) is usually going to be seen as a net positive rather than a negative. You could tell by how often the incident was reported as an "aww" moment rather than a "ugh" moment.

Boy Fiddy, you sure think and type fast.
 
In other journalistic enterprises (like the paper presses) they try to separate that by removing the ability for one employee to comment or do their job in the direct service of their family member's image, and so on.

meh, it's a cute human interest story. if i have to spend the first half of dinner listening to bull**** about war, i sure don't mind seeing him be proud of his kid.

i generally watch the nightly newscasts, though judging by the commercials, i'm not in the demographic. NBC Nightly is probably the best, and Williams does a good job. now if they could just shut down MSNBC, which is a stain on the NBC News legacy.
 
meh, it's a cute human interest story. if i have to spend the first half of dinner listening to bull**** about war, i sure don't mind seeing him be proud of his kid.

i generally watch the nightly newscasts, though judging by the commercials, i'm not in the demographic. NBC Nightly is probably the best, and Williams does a good job. now if they could just shut down MSNBC, which is a stain on the NBC News legacy.

I'm not a fan of Nightly News, but this is more "inside baseball" ethics than it is a realistic demand for them to follow.
 
I could honestly care less.
 
Seems cool to me. It's good when people remember that "the news" is run by real human beings.
 
Hell no, he wasn't wrong at all. I think it's a great story. I'm sick of the nasty **** on the news all the time. It's a refreshing break from Ferguson, Putin's mug, bombs in the middle east, and bad weather. I don't care that she's his daughter.
 
I'm not a fan of Nightly News, but this is more "inside baseball" ethics than it is a realistic demand for them to follow.

So wait, are you upset that he spent a half minute talking about his daughter?
 
So wait, are you upset that he spent a half minute talking about his daughter?

I'm not upset in the slightest over this. I was stating that in other circles, yes, Williams' actions would be ethically compromising. In the circle of NBC, CBS, FOX, and MSNBC this is not really a concern. They operate under different journalistic and professional expectations. My local newspaper doesn't have other programming obligations like a television station does, nor does it have an audience with equal demands. Television viewers grow fond of personalities they see on the screen and put a "family" view of the station's employees and want to be informed of the goings ons of the employees and the station's programming.

I was also stating on the side I'm not a fan of Nightly News, for reasons unrelated to this.
 
I'm not upset in the slightest over this. I was stating that in other circles, yes, Williams' actions would be ethically compromising. In the circle of NBC, CBS, FOX, and MSNBC this is not really a concern. They operate under different journalistic and professional expectations. My local newspaper doesn't have other programming obligations like a television station does, nor does it have an audience with equal demands. Television viewers grow fond of personalities they see on the screen and put a "family" view of the station's employees and want to be informed of the goings ons of the employees and the station's programming.

I was also stating on the side I'm not a fan of Nightly News, for reasons unrelated to this.

I see. Thanks for the clarification.
 
Nope, not at all. I'm sure he didn't come up with the story and he never identified his daughter as the actress.
 
Nope and it beats the hell out of the 24 hour cycle of misery I see with TV news media.

21st century, man, where ya been?!

That was a joke right? Maybe it's tradition as the article stated, so that's fine I suppose, it's weird mind you but whatever.
 
The role of Peter Pan is traditionally played by a woman, going back to Mary Martin in the original Broadway production.

Yes, but there was legal reasons involved back then. We don't have such issues now.

Besides, the only two Peter Pan I've seen was the animated film (played by Bobby Driscoll) and from the movie Hook played by the late great Robin Williams, both were men. Look I'm not going to be some social justice type or women lib and scream on the top of a mountain until this is changed, it's just that since I've never seen a Broadway play, this seems a bit odd. I get it's Tradition, but it's still a woman playing a man, and that seems odd.
 
Yes, but there was legal reasons involved back then. We don't have such issues now.

Besides, the only two Peter Pan I've seen was the animated film (played by Bobby Driscoll) and from the movie Hook played by the late great Robin Williams, both were men. Look I'm not going to be some social justice type or women lib and scream on the top of a mountain until this is changed, it's just that since I've never seen a Broadway play, this seems a bit odd. I get it's Tradition, but it's still a woman playing a man, and that seems odd.

A woman playing a boy. You make a fair point, but I don't think NBC set out to make theatrical history.
 
A woman playing a boy. You make a fair point, but I don't think NBC set out to make theatrical history.

That's a good point, come to think about it this, is more set to be a like a play then a movie right? I guess when you consider the history there, I can definitely see the reasoning. Though, I would argue that many more people are familiar with Peter Pan from the Disney animated movie and Hook.
 
That's a good point, come to think about it this, is more set to be a like a play then a movie right? I guess when you consider the history there, I can definitely see the reasoning. Though, I would argue that many more people are familiar with Peter Pan from the Disney animated movie and Hook.

You may be right about the animated movie and Hook, but when NBC did Sound of Music last year they followed the Broadway script rather than the movie script. It looks like they're planning a series of live TV revivals of Broadway productions.
 
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