Last night, Brian Williams was anchoring from The Motel.
Not the Kotel, The Motel. The Lorraine Motel, where 40 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was...
What verb do you think is appropriate? Shot? Killed? Assassinated? Martyred?
All of them, I think.
Anyway, Brian Williams was out there anchoring the news, and they had speakers in the background with the usual ceremonies and speeches.
John McCain and Hillary Clinton were on the scene to give their reflections and McCain gave a mea culpa for not initially supporting the holiday for MLK.
Here's what struck me as odd - during Williams' interview of McCain, the speakers were roaring full blast, drowning out what McCain had to say through his clip-on microphone.
But during Hillary's chat with Williams, the speakers were silent.
Then, after Hillary was done, Williams had a hand microphone.
What's the deal, NBC? Hiring highscholers to right up your sets with audio these days, or are you trying to say something here?
Other anchors at NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC have expressed their bias less-than-gracefully in the past few months. I guess we'll be seeing more examples of it as we approach November when the real skunkery comes out.