FORMER DATELINE CORRESPONDENT BLASTS NBC FOR ITS SEPTEMBER 11 COVERAGE
January 4th 2008 19:47
MediaBlooodhound reports on an unseemly squabble between NBC and its former Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenbery who dared to claim that the network’s coverage of September 11 events was utter crap.
Hockenberry claims in an article in this month’s Technology Review that on the Sunday after the September 11 2001 attacks he pitched stories on the origins of al Quaeda and Islamic Fundamentalism, only to be told to instead focus of the firefighters and perhaps ride along with them a la Cops, the Fox reality series.
NBC quickly hit back saying, “It's unfortunate that John Hockenberry seems to be so far out of touch with reality. The comments are so utterly absurd, we will have no further comment."
Hockenberry asked GE, which does business with the Bin Laden family company, to help him get in contact with them. Instead, a PR executive called Hockenberry's hotel room in Saudi Arabia and read a statement about how GE didn't see its "valuable business relationship" with the Bin Laden group as having anything to do with Dateline.
- From MediaBlab
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