ChemicalSmiles
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I made the ending bold because the whole signifigance of the article is at the end... .so what do you guys think....? I think they should continue to pop the ignorant slobs.
Following suicide controversy, "Dateline NBC" suffers layoffs.
An industry newsletter is reporting today that a number of "Dateline NBC's" staff has been laid off, and those who escaped the ax have been reassigned to other divisions within NBC News, including Stone Phillips.
UPDATE: Television Week reports that the total "Dateline" layoffs across the country would come to around 15. The article (included in its entirety below) also stated: "The ultimate total of layoffs within NBC News is unknown, but people familiar with events so far say that many more employees than expected took voluntary exit packages. That helped reduce the number of layoffs required."
NBC Universal recently announced it would be laying off around 700 employees across the company.
NewsBlues originally reported that "Dateline" had been cancelled, but when the P-I contacted NBC News to confirm this, a spokesperson emphatically replied via e-mail, "This is absolutely, positively NOT true. In fact, by January, Dateline will be on for another night -- Sundays -- when football is gone."
"Dateline NBC" premiered in 1992, and according to information on its press web site, "has brought Americans in-depth coverage of breaking news, including the funeral of Princess Diana, the national manhunt for Andrew Cunanan, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Unabomber investigation, the Oklahoma City bombing, the O.J. Simpson trials, the Los Angeles earthquake and fires, and the floods in the Northwest." It also has explored a number of strange true-crime cases along the way.
Still headlining our memories is Matt Lauer's interview with a blubbering Miss Spears. Lauer fought to keep his jaws from going slack as Britney cracked her gum and "bwah, haw, hooed" her fake eyelashes right off her face.
Before that, "Dateline" played into another national pop-culture crisis by slobbering all over Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez for an hour. The pair's major accomplishment at that point, beside being involved with each other, was working together on one of the dumbest movies of all time.
But the apex of "Dateline's" history has to be the occasional "To Catch a Predator" series, the lovechild of the NBC News department and controversial Internet watchdog group Perverted Justice, which hunts down online child predators. Tomorrow and next Saturday night's "Dateline" feature the latest installments. (That's on KING/5 at 8.)
We wonder if we'll see anything about one target of a recent "Dateline" sting: Texas prosecutor Louis Conradt Jr. shot himself in the head last Sunday as police arrived at his house to arrest him with cameras waiting outside.
Posted by Melanie McFarland at November 10, 2006 1:20 p.m.
---link--- http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/archives/108631.asp
Following suicide controversy, "Dateline NBC" suffers layoffs.
An industry newsletter is reporting today that a number of "Dateline NBC's" staff has been laid off, and those who escaped the ax have been reassigned to other divisions within NBC News, including Stone Phillips.
UPDATE: Television Week reports that the total "Dateline" layoffs across the country would come to around 15. The article (included in its entirety below) also stated: "The ultimate total of layoffs within NBC News is unknown, but people familiar with events so far say that many more employees than expected took voluntary exit packages. That helped reduce the number of layoffs required."
NBC Universal recently announced it would be laying off around 700 employees across the company.
NewsBlues originally reported that "Dateline" had been cancelled, but when the P-I contacted NBC News to confirm this, a spokesperson emphatically replied via e-mail, "This is absolutely, positively NOT true. In fact, by January, Dateline will be on for another night -- Sundays -- when football is gone."
"Dateline NBC" premiered in 1992, and according to information on its press web site, "has brought Americans in-depth coverage of breaking news, including the funeral of Princess Diana, the national manhunt for Andrew Cunanan, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Unabomber investigation, the Oklahoma City bombing, the O.J. Simpson trials, the Los Angeles earthquake and fires, and the floods in the Northwest." It also has explored a number of strange true-crime cases along the way.
Still headlining our memories is Matt Lauer's interview with a blubbering Miss Spears. Lauer fought to keep his jaws from going slack as Britney cracked her gum and "bwah, haw, hooed" her fake eyelashes right off her face.
Before that, "Dateline" played into another national pop-culture crisis by slobbering all over Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez for an hour. The pair's major accomplishment at that point, beside being involved with each other, was working together on one of the dumbest movies of all time.
But the apex of "Dateline's" history has to be the occasional "To Catch a Predator" series, the lovechild of the NBC News department and controversial Internet watchdog group Perverted Justice, which hunts down online child predators. Tomorrow and next Saturday night's "Dateline" feature the latest installments. (That's on KING/5 at 8.)
We wonder if we'll see anything about one target of a recent "Dateline" sting: Texas prosecutor Louis Conradt Jr. shot himself in the head last Sunday as police arrived at his house to arrest him with cameras waiting outside.
Posted by Melanie McFarland at November 10, 2006 1:20 p.m.
---link--- http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/archives/108631.asp
