Have to agree: don't lament the lack of time for hard news, then throw in two softies such as the headache remedy ad and the leaky ceiling. Looks awfully silly.
Again, I request that you do your part to protect the English language. My gripe this time: safe haven. talk about redundant!! Haven is defined as a place of safety. Based on your reporting, the refugees were taken from Lebanon to a safe place of safety. Errrrgh. It should be ... The refugees were taken from Lebanon to a haven on Cyprus.
you are doing a remarkable job in very difficult circumstances. thank you.

LOVED Brian's very end to last night's broadcast! I just saw that online. Hilarious stuff.

Tim
10,645 days

After seeing last night's report with started with Israel burying her dead, I am reminded of the fact that New Orleans is having trouble burying her dead...because her city-run cemeteries are lacking grave diggers. At least Israel has grave diggers.

After the second report showing a Lebanese hospital full of wounded refugees, I am reminded of New Orleans' few remaining hospitals which are on life support---and how, God forbid, should a new major storm hit southeast Louisiana, a humanitarian crisis could result...

The third report, featuring traumatized Israeli kids, made me think of traumatized childred in Mississippi, Louisiana...and dispersed all around the nation...

Historians who look back on the early 21st century from the 2200's or 2300's most probably aren't going to be studying today's Mideast mess unless they're diehard Mideast history buffs. Reason being, fighting there will still be going on, being covered ad nauseam by nightly newscasts at the expense of other important news that isn't being covered....

They will, however, be pondering how Americans, out of shortsightedness and just plain lack of caring, abandoned a one-of-a-kind city and her surrounding area, with her distinctive culture and ambiance and diverse peoples, and allowed her to wither away and die, to sink, Atlantis-like, into the sea. Sadly, they will shake their heads and wonder why...

Dear Nightly News,
My father and I watch your program nearly everynight during diner. Although during your last broadcast I was upset by something which was said. A woman brought this up through an Email she sent in which she mentioned her concearn for her sons in Iraq and how the coverage seems to be fading away from that region. Brian Williams said that this is a big world and there is not enough time to cover every story. Brian Williams then brought up a story about a leak during a meeting in wasington D.C. and another brief story of a head ache medicine that in turns gives the viewer a head ache. You are correct in saying this is a big world but don't treat your viewers as if they have small minds. Give us the viewers what we want, the NEWS.

I just finished watching Nightly News at 630p est. Brian was commenting on the email the show recieves and made a comment to the effect that there is so much news to cover in 30 minutes....
anyway I remember that the Nightly News, back in the Huntly Brinkly era, was if memory serves me correct, was 1 hour in length. NBC is world known, you should consider a 1 hour newscast. I dont think any of the viewers would object

Let's see . . . you spend time telling us that many of us are concerned about the lack of reporting on the Iraq front, but thought you had plenty of time to annoy us over and over with that admittedly obnoxious headache remedy???

And that was NEWS? Explain, please.

Ironically, while you were talking about one of the world's most annoying commercials, I got distracted by the fact that it was playing beside your head on The Weather Channel.