Seems NBC got no balls. If anyone missed it, it's here.
Quote of note:
The line NBC stopped us from hearing on the West Coast: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
...The show was aired live on the East Coast, where West's full comments were heard.
There was a several-second tape delay, but the person in charge "was instructed to listen for a curse word and didn't realize [West] had gone off script," NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks told Associated Press.
The Show Didn't Benefit by Censors
By Robert Hilburn, Times Staff Writer
AS we enter the celebrity telethon phase of the Katrina tragedy, NBC's "A Concert for Hurricane Relief" stands as a blueprint for its own kind of institutional failure.
By censoring Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West's remarks critical of President Bush during its West Coast feed of the program Friday night, the network violated the most moving and essential moment in an otherwise sterile, self-serving corporate broadcast.
"It would be most unfortunate," the network said in a statement defending its action, "if the efforts of the artists who participated tonight and the generosity of millions of Americans who are helping those in need are overshadowed by one person's opinion."
Excuse me, but whose tragedy is this: NBC's or America's?
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What should we expect from a
What should we expect from a network owned by GE, a major military contractor?
The line NBC stopped us
The line NBC stopped us from hearing on the West Coast: "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
As if we haven't head that line from dozens of people who don't like Bush.
Condoleezza Rice was in Alabama yesterday. Said it wasn't so.
You really think not liking
You really think not liking Bush was the motivation here?
You really think not liking
You really think not liking Bush was the motivation here?
Not exactly, I suspect the speakers believe what they're saying, but somehow they manage observe the actions of the mayor of New Orleans in a whole different way, and I suspect that has to do with the speakers feeling differently about the mayor as compared to the president.
By my estimate, they both acted pretty much as you would predict they would act based on the bureaucracies they head, not their personal opinions.
Not exactly, I suspect the
It has more to do with the fact that the administrations officials not only failed, they lied about it. Has to do with the fact that Bush could have set all you've seen the last 48 hourd into motion without breaking the schedule of his trip...Nagin has no such power. And it has to do with the fact that Bush could cancel his vacation, fly back to Washington DC and sign a special bill to force a judicial review Terri Schiavo's case and scheduled help for New Orleans for the end of the week when everyone already knew it was an unholy disaster already.