NBC's Brian Williams: There will be no mention of Britney Spears or Anna Nicole tonight

[sabra]

http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2007/02/fat_tuesday.html#below-fold

Fat Tuesday
Posted by Brian Williams, Anchor & Managing Editor (04:30 pm ET, 02/20/07)

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At the top of the broadcast tonight: any number of important stories -- chief among them, in no particular order, today's twin Supreme Court cases, the closing arguments in the Libby case, the unfolding damage control effort at Walter Reed, and the unfolding saga and resulting reforms from the JetBlue meltdown. We'll also continue our series Trading Places -- featuring another story that we learned about from a viewer e-mail. And a preview of tomorrow night's segment: We'll take on the high-interest topic of long-term care insurance -- one that has been under discussion in our house.

About last night's effort: While we were battling some technical gremlins that might have been obvious to sharp-eyed viewers, I thought it was a good dissection of the changing U.S.-led war effort in Iraq -- one that deserves a close watch. It was a luxury to have Jane Arraf on duty there (for a time, she was the only credentialed Western reporter in the bad old Saddam days), to say nothing of the ability to turn to Richard Engel to my immediate left and ask him about the situation.

Viewer warning: There will be no mention of Britney Spears' baldness or rehab in tonight's broadcast, nor will there be any mention of Anna Nicole's "body possession" hearing.

Despite that, we sure hope you'll join us for our Fat Tuesday night effort.

[deutsey]

1. That's a bold stand to take these days.

:evilfrown:

[Kagemusha]

3. Some diversity!

I'm all for it :)

[951-Riverside]

5. Its amazing they can "take a stand" against these two but not Bush.

...oh yeah they're really tough.

[deutsey]

11. They want to hold on to their phoney baloney jobs, don't they?

Otherwise, they might have to work for a living...

[Supersedeas]

12. the fact that he has to make an announcement is a statement on the state of things

[deutsey]

2. Delete

[951-Riverside]

4. I think the Anna Nicole fiasco is actually very interesting

As for Britney Spears she's just as interesting as Laura Bush. :eyes:

[Tormenta]

6. Good for them

As Chris Hedges said in a TruthDig interview,

...now these very cable news channels and media outlets that sold us the war virtually don’t cover it. They pretend the war doesn’t exist, and they feed us this trivia and celebrity gossip that unfortunately in American society is consumed as news.

http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070206_chris_hedges_christian_right_war_on_america/

[jarnocan]

7. very cool- maybe he should also talk about the dangers of this

BLACKWATER http://www.buzzflash.com/store/items/524

Blackwater is the utterly gripping and explosive story of how the Bush Administration has spent hundreds of millions of public dollars building a parallel corporate army...Naomi Klein, author No Logo

discussing the book

I know we have discussed this some- Randi Rhodes has talked/warned about this quite a bit, and BU**SH** mentioned privatizing the military-in so many words in the SOTU ,but even the descriptions, reviews of this book are very realistically terrifying.
I also think this along with Election fraud, the downing street memo/related stuff http://afterdowningstreet.org , 911-time-line http://www.911pressfortruth.com/timeline , IranContra/Sun Myung Moon BU**SH** history and???? are the kind of information that people need to know to at least have a clue about what is happening.
I hope this is a sign that the MSM is going to try to really educate folks.

[kenny blankenship]

8. Unless of course either britney or anna nicole smith do something outrageous!

(We'll tell you WHAT THEY DID after the break!)

[radfringe]

9. What about the DIAPER-naut?

I want to know if she was wearing Pampers or Huggies.... **snicker snicker**

I guess it "depends"....

[WI_DEM]

10. yeah, they'll leave that for the TODAY show.