Shallow reporting, probably to grab the shallow inattentive mindset so predominant today. The oil boom story only talked about jobs, jobs, jobs for the taking if you could just travel to Williston, ND. A brief mention that the oil boom is created by fracking. But no mention it uses enormous amounts of water. No mention of where that water is coming from, how much is being diverted away from agricultural needs, and the eventual long-term (permanent?) environmental disaster that may happen. It’s all about me and my needs right now.
Richard Engel’s piece on Syria was an embarrassment. A quality story, too short, buried in a larger schlock production. It deserved much better than it got.
The anchor babies story was another fluff story, with serious undertones. NBC made it a partisan story. It deserved more as well, including better reporting.
The airline seating piece was OK. Nice fluff. I bet the airlines ignore it, even if it were to save them money.
The Jon Stewart interview was good. Clearly though, Brian Williams had an agenda and a time limit because Stewart had some serious thoughts in his humor. His style. Didn’t work for me on this show.
I would be surprised if it lasted until Christmas.
NBC headquarters are at Rockefeller Center in New York. Saturday Night Live is filmed there as is The Today Show and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (previously, Conan’s show was filmed there). You might also recognize it from the sitcom 30 Rock which takes place there (NBC’s address is 30 Rockefeller Center).
So 30 Rock is a nickname for the NBC headquarters and America is sorta, kinda familiar with that, so the obvious conclusion as to what to name their new show is “Rock Center.”
Duh.
Worst television show name ever. Worse than “Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Shop.”
Well, yeah, everybody knows what 30 Rock is. That nickname for the GE Building goes back a long way. But no human in the history of the universe has ever uttered the phrase “rock center.” One either refers to the complex as a whole as Rockefeller Center, or to a specific building (30 Rock, 50 Rock, etc.)
It’s also rather presumptuous. Rockefeller Center as a whole contains a shitload more than the GE Building, and the GE Building itself contains a hell of a lot more than NBC’s main broadcast studios.
Worse than “It’s Like, You Know…,” or “Wednesday 9:30 (8:30 Central)”? I found “Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place” terribly unfunny, but I actually liked the name and was disappointed when they dropped the pizza place from the name.