NBC Prez: It Can’t Happen Here
Charles Johnson
Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 5:24 pm PST • Views: 133
NBC president Jeff Zucker says the CBS fraudulent memo scandal could not have happened at NBC.
Speaking at the Television Critics Association in Los Angeles Friday, Zucker says it is was “shocking” to see “the degree to which responsibiltiy was abdicated on the a piece about the President of the United States, six weeks before the election.” He specifically cited Rather’s “lack of involvement on a piece like that.”
Zucker expressed surprise that CBS seemed to have none of the safeguards that his own network put in place after its own 1991 scandal involving NBC Dateline.
The newsmagazine failed to disclose that a General Motors car had been rigged to explode during a crash test or that the order of some footage had been switched.
Zucker contended the Bush National Guard scandal would never have happened under Tom Brokaw or Brian Williams.
Did I hear someone laughing in the back of the room?
Frank says: