Thanks Brian for reading my email on Nightly tonight.
Joan Chapman, Cheshire, CT.

So, whatever happened to Butch..He got right to the point and hit a homerun. You have given Corker more time in two days than in the past six months while Ford has been getting all the time plus his exposure, free of charge on the Imus Commie Hour.

The media's overkill regarding Kerry in his run for President and a few verbal blunders that you played over and over again ruined our country! Look who we ended up with because of it. I blame the media 100%! OVER and OVER Jay Leno, Conan, MSNBC - (all of the news programs on MSNBC) wouldn't stop with the Kerry bashing and now YOU are doing it again. You just sent me an email to go through your NBC programming and tell you what I am watching on NBC. Why in the hell, should I do anything to help an organization that is trying to ruin this country by blowing out of proportion stupid little bitty mis-wording. I've had it with you. You all must be Republicans. What happened to be non-biased? Their is no fairness here. STOP IT. Their are lots of folks who don't follow news but they do watch "Entertainment" shows and when they hear bashing over and over of Kerry for stupid little mis-statements being made into being something big, it's just so obvious to those of us who do follow news, that you don't have anything negative to say, so you make a mountain out of a molehill. Well, I'm taking my homepage off of MSNBC. I'm going back to CNN. I'm done with you folks. My husband is in complete agreement and so is my 33 yr old son. We all had a discussion about this. We also watched MSNBC instead of CNN but I'm done with that too along with Jay and Conan and their ridicule of Democrats to the point where ignorant people or first time voters hear their Kerry bashing and vote against Democrats. Good Bye to a Prejudicial media group!

Welcome to Memphis Brian. I hope you enjoy your visit,

Please ask Tim Russert this question,

If you knew Friday what you'll know Sunday morning could you win the powerball Saturday night?

Thanks

Editor says, "Memphis was chosen because it is the largest city in the state and because NBC has an affiliate there."

It is NOT the largest MSA and what is WSMV...chopped liver??

Re: Post 11/3 12:36:01

To the Editor: Fair enough. Thanks for posting my message.

I grew up in Memphis and now live in a smaller city outside Memphis. I have to say that Mr. Williams' choice of Memphis as the battleground in the Senate race in TN is way off the mark. Ford will carry Memphis. Corker will carry East Tennessee. The true battleground is moderately Democratic Nashville and Middle TN. Mr. Williams also said Memphis is the largest city in the state. Perhaps technically true, but Nashville is the most important and most vital city in the state (largest MSA), in just about every aspect. Memphis is the Detroit of the South, a city that is losing residents who don't want to live there as the city annexes all the land it can to make up the difference. I guess Brian simply likes Beale Street for some reason, (although I would not be there after 10pm!), or he wants to help Rep. Ford in his territory. Nothing would surprise me. I like Brian, however, and wish him well.

Editor's Note: As Brian explained in his report, Memphis was chosen because it is the largest city in the state and because NBC has an affiliate there. It was not chosen because it is the battleground in the Tennessee Senate race.

I would like Brian to please ask just a simple question. On the air. Why is it that our soldiers are still dieing from bombs in our Humvees? I thought we fixed them?

Brian Williams describes Harold Ford as coming from a 'political family'. How many of you that don't live in Tennessee know about that families political history: John Ford, state senator, indicted for bribery and kicked out of the state legislature last year, his sister fraudulently elected in his place and kicked out also. These are just the most recent embarrassments of Harold Ford's 'political family. It seems like this information is relevant and is totally unreported.

I second everybody who complained about the Tom Cruise story.

Cruise would only be real news were he to attempt to rehabilitate his image by doing something of socially redeeming value. For example: producing a documentary or perhaps a thought-provoking docudrama about Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. Or spending time in New Orleans, in one of Louisiana's other storm-ravaged parishes, or on Mississippi's Gulf Coast helping rebuild or get infrastructure back into shape. Or volunteering in McDonogh High School, some other troubled New Orleans school, or maybe one in Mississippi by teaching an acting class, helping the students produce a play--anything that would offer them respite, however brief, from their problems. Or he could lend his name and fame, not to mention donate beaucoup bucks, to the cause of restoring Louisiana's rapidly vanishing wetlands. (Not by travelling to Africa and coming back with a baby, though--since Madonna, that is SOOOO yesterday's news!)

But I doubt that any of those charitable, socially valuable ideas even occurred to Cruise, egomaniacal publicity hound that he is--how else could he have so annoyingly wangled his way onto NBC Nightly twice in recent months, wasting air time that would better have been used to cover more substantive news?

Is this the end of NBC voicing the lives of ordinary Iraq citizens?

I was stationed in Millington just a few miles north of Memphis when I was in the Navy 23 years ago. I was an 18 yr old kid then and I LOVED Memphis dearly. I haven't been there in some time, so I hope it hasn't changed to much. Brian, I hope you enjoy it as well.

Brian,

Your story on what's wrong with voting machines totally ignored the most damning evidence yet presented by Princeton in which it has been demonstrated that the Diebold machines can be hacked in less than a minute with a key card that will alter vote counting in favor of a candidate and then destroy all evidence that this has occured. The demonstration is here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cxSJwG9Q0 This evidence is widely known, you and your staff are surely aware of it yet you choose to offer a general pablum kind of "new technology with bugs in it" whitewashed coverage. Our democracy is being consciously and deliberately stolen from us in this manner and you cover it up with your shallow reporting. Shame on you. You have lost our respect. You know better and you can do better.

Please, please, will someone in the media speak up about Bush and his "traveling for votes" while the kids he sent to HIS WAR are dying, hour by hour. So, by not saying anything about this "President" who walked away from his military service and has an administration who has more deferments than any previous. While bush runs around glad-handing and telling everyone that they should vote Republican and be safe, he kills our young people and doesn't even mention them except to get votes that "I feel your pain" and lies more to true Americans. When will you all hold bush's feet to the fire???

Celebrity news can be pretty annoying sometimes, and it seems a lot of people don't like it, but there must be a lot of people who do like it, if this kind of thing is being reported.
And I'm sure it will be a relatively well done report, it won't be stupid gossip like on those Entertainment Tonight-type shows. So don't worry about it. You don't have to care about every story on the news.

And yet another echo ... if I never hear another report on Tom Cruise or any other so-called celebrity, I would be very very happy. Their lives are not "news", not even when they become studio heads. I'm interested in news of the real world please.

The rest of tonight's lineup sounds great ... thanks!

Brian - Quite frankly I don't care if I ever hear another word about Tom Cruise, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt, Donald Trump, Madonna, or any other member of the Celebrity Culture. Please leave those people to the cable outlets and give us real News on Nightly.
Joan Chapman, Cheshire, CT

I am going to have to echo other bloggers....please, no more Tom Cruise. If I had any interest in his latest adventures I could check out the check-out stand. News time is short. I want to know about events that truly might impact my life. Cruise does not. His universe doesn't even parallel mine.

I'll watch the broadcast and your coverage on RNC dirty tricks used against Harold Ford. You know the one I mean, the ad by the RNC that insinuates Ford likes buxom white Playboy bunnies.

The sad thing is the american people allow this type of campaigning to continue. Slap down the RNC dirty tactics. Let them know the american people want values not just lip service about values.

Skip the Tom Cruise crap. It's just that. And please, skip the coverage of bad jokes by Sen Kerry and tell us what going on with search and rescue of the american soldier kidnapped in Iraq.

Tom Cruise is not news! He is fodder for Entertainment Tonite & Access Hollywood and the rag sheets at the supermarket check out lines. Please, please, please stop using what precious little time there is for news reporting (in between the many commercials) for highlighting the antics of an overpaid, egomaniac who has no idea what the real world is all about.

I hate to think what truly newsworthy issues will not be reported in order to report on the latest Tom Cruise news. Let's see will it be: CA’s ex-CEO gets 12 years in prison, Sweep nets 11,000 fugitives, including sex offenders, Iraq leader: U.S. troops still needed, 3 more WTC victims identified, Calif. arson, murder charges sought, Three bodies found inside S.C. drainage pipe - all headlines from msnbc.com.

I expect better from NBC Nightly News.

I am wondering if there has been a change in your policy vis a vis Richard Engle being embedded with the US troops. He has been critized in conservative circles as being anti-American, as he has reported on the impact of the war on the Iraqi, that he is sympathetic to the "enemy." What's up with his being embedded?