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We are here early for the games mostly due to preparations for the Opening Ceremony on Friday night. NBC Sports asked me to join my friend Bob Costas in their booth that night, and I agreed. The size and scope of the project demands our attention days in advance (that's just the on-air team... NBC Sports has an impressive city of hard workers who've been here for ages) and thus tonight we'll originate the broadcast from Torino for the first time. We're finding that it actually gives us an interesting perspective on the ongoing European-centered story stemming from the political cartoons.
We will begin the broadcast tonight with this extraordinary day in Atlanta. Few Americans, in life or in death, could command the attention, respect and admiration of four U.S. Presidents. One of them was Coretta Scott King. Hopefully the collection of eulogies that we have selected will tell the story beyond any words we could offer here.
We have an important introduction to this city tonight: we've asked Mike Taibbi to take us on a video tour of this place that will soon be the focal point of so much of the world's attention. And we'll close the broadcast tonight with a consumer product that we once joked about... a product that you can now purchase and that is being marketed very aggressively.
As we get used to our new surroundings here and await the start of things (and the arrival of throngs currently en route) we hope you'll join us tonight from Torino.
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The garden of Eden?
Was that you Mr. Williams reporting to all the world as each country was announced the connection to the coalition of countries supporting bush in Iraq? How foolish that was,I lost all respect for you. Did you even think of the possible danger you could cause them from any terrorists?
Janet S New York (Sent Feb 12, 2006 1:51:21 PM)
I agree 100% with Dewey's comment.
Apparently someone at NBC Nightly News, in order to make room for what Dewey calls "self-promotion," has decided to cut drastically back on post-Katrina coverage, perhaps thinking Katrina's aftermath is old news.
Tell that to the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who at Coretta Scott King's funeral, said that what happened after Katrina shows that we still have a long way to go towards achieving full equality.
Tell that to the many Katrina evacuees around the country who due to a FEMA deadline which has passed, now have to choose between paying for the hotel rooms in which they live, or moving out. (NBC last night merely headlined New York City demonstrations against the deadline, when you should have aired a full report on evacuees' drastic plight. Furthermore, you referred to the evacuees as "refugees," when the correct term is "evacuees.")
Tell that to Louisiana Gov. Blanco, who has expressed the outrage of many of her state's people, upset that Louisiana's recovery from Katrina and Rita (which, although it caused many of her picturesque coastal towns to look bombed out, as Katrina did to Mississippi, has been basically forgotten) is not receiving more federal attention.
Tell that to the agonized citizens of New Orleans, who have been flooded out of house and home. Many, desparing of their homes, their livelihoods, and the condition of their city, have been committing suicide.
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath is NOT old news and should not be treated as such in order to make room for Winter Olympic hype.
Olivia Elizabeth Burdon, Peoria, Ill. (Sent Feb 8, 2006 7:56:33 AM)
May god be with you during your trip to Turin Mr. Williams! And be home safe. I will pray that you and other reporters in that area are safe, and that Steven Spielberg will not produce a movie called, "Turin".
Arthur Tran, Las Vegas, NV (Sent Feb 8, 2006 12:21:50 AM)
I second Dewey's comment, and would like to add that, if it really is such a slow news day, I would much prefer to see more extended coverage of Coretta King's funeral and less of that disguised advertising you call reporting (do we really need news airtime devoted to Gillette's new products???). Come on, Brian, things are falling apart in NY while you're in Italy!
Beatriz Urraca (Sent Feb 7, 2006 7:51:13 PM)
Just a quick note on the "Torino" definition. Torino is the "real name " of the city and not only a "how the locals call it" definition of it. As Italian, I felt a little offended by the demining way you named Torino.
How would you feel if we said that "San Francesco (city) is called by "locals" S. Francisco"?
Luciana, Boston, MA (Sent Feb 7, 2006 7:36:08 PM)
For consistency sake, if you are going to call Turin Torino because that is what the Italians call it, call the country Italia, not Italy. How many people know where Firenza is? Do you think we'll ever call it the Shroud of Torino?
Tim Hoover (Sent Feb 7, 2006 7:00:00 PM)
With everything that is happening in the world today, and what is happening ischanging very rapidly, don't you think you should be devoting more time to actual news and less time on self-promotion and your broadcasts of the Winter Olympics?
Dewey Quong, Reno, NV (Sent Feb 7, 2006 5:32:56 PM)
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