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'NBC Nightly News' to Be Shown on Internet
Feltope writes "NBC News said Monday that it would begin making its "NBC Nightly News" broadcast available for free on the Internet starting next week.
Past broadcasts will also be archived at the http://www.nightlynews.msnbc.com/ Web site, the network said.
It's not necessarily news on demand, though. The newscast, aired at 6:30 p.m. on many NBC stations on the East Coast, won't be available on the Web until after 10 p.m. ET.
'Many of our viewers tell me they often miss the broadcast because they're not at home or tending to their busy lives and families," anchor Brian Williams said. "This new service reflects the fact that the pace of our lives has changed.'
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Using the Internet to watch a network newscast is like going to a newsstand and getting USA Today.
And if you strip out the inflammatory slant and the "entertainment news", you can go back in time!
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
There are 3 major arguments:
It has always been thus. I can remember when our BBS would go down. People would immediately call each other. "Can you get online?" "No. You?" "No! Did you call Jimbo?" "No, but I talked to Dark Horse and he did!" "Cool." "Not cool! Jimbo is out to dinner and probably won't be back for awhile." "$HIT! I've been hot chatting with LadyStone for hours!" "Dude, she's on that other chat BBS, do you have an account?" "No!" "Go join. You get like 1 free hour once your validated." "Yeah, but you have to send a copy of your license!" "Okay, go join and I'll call TimtheEnchanter and get him to validate you. He runs that board." "Cool! Dude, if I score a date you're so getting a beer!" "Cool!"
Sweet! Now it's only a matter of time before they release the entire series on DVD. Me I can't wait to get Season One -- David Brinkley, John Chancellor, the best the absolute best.
Not to mention the epic storylines that year: Vietnam, Apollo 13, the Beatles breaking up (holy crap! who saw that coming?), the Kent State tie-in. Must-see classics, every ep. Frankly the shows gone down the past couple of years, but can you blame them? The set the bar too high, nobody can write like that anymore.
-- Watch the REAL Jon Katz.
Have you nothing better to do with your life than go about correcting people's spelling and grammar?
Nope.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Yo gran-momma so old she knew Burger King while he was still a prince.
It's not real news. NBC Nightly News is a newslike substitute in much the same way that textured vegetable protein is a meatlike substitute. Fox News on the other hand is like dog vomit and it's viewers are like the dog who eats it. CBS News went downhill after Walter Cronkite left. ABC News was only worth watching late at night with Ted Koppel. You could stare at him for hours wondering whether or not that was his real hair.
And CNN has the hottest infobabes. Who cares if whether its real news or not? I wish CNN would bring Rudi Bakhtiar back. At least they still have Robin Meade, Soledad O'Brien, Erica Hill, Sophie Choi, Susan Hendricks, and Arthel Neville, to name a few. CNN definitely got the better end of the deal when they traded Greta van Susteran for Paula Zahn.
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"