Anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias at Dateline NBC ... very sad
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter reported yesterday that former Dateline NBC reporter John Hockenberry, who was laid off from Dateline in early 2005, claims that in the aftermath of September 11, the network diverted him from reporting on al Qaeda and instead wanted
him to ride along with the country's "forgotten heroes," firefighters.
Here's the link to the story:
Additionally, Jeff Zucker, then NBC-programming chief, according to Hockenberry, said "that he had no time for any subtitled interviews with jihadists raging about Palestine."
Nice.
Hockenberry is a distinguished fellow at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Previously, he worked as a broadcast with National Public Radio, and ABC News. He worked with Dateline from 1996-2005 as a correspondent. Hockenberry also called the senational NBC series "To Catch a Predator" a "highly rated pile of programming debris."
Another bombshell is Hockenberry's claims that General Electric, NBC's parent company, discouraged him from talking to the Bin Laden family about their estranged family member. Apparently GE does business with the Bin Laden family. He reports a "PR executive" with NBC him in his 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."
Oh yea, there' no overt bias in the mainstream American news media. Mainstream American news organizations are professionals and hire people based on talent not ethnic background or political persuasion. Of course, once someone with an unfavorable political view slips past and insists on practicing professional journalism, they get hammered.
NAAJA-US.com