Regarding Mika Brzezinski.
Thank God we still have journalist like Mika Brzezinski who can stand firm on her believes and act upon them. All those Hennedys , O’Reillys, and such should have half the guts she displayed on her show today when she refused to lead her news cast with a Paris Hilton story. My hat off to you pretty woman!

Carlos Lazarte

Please forward this to Mrs. Brzezinski

HENRIETTA DONATO: INDEED, IT WAS HEART-WRENCHING TO WITNESS FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH'S EMOTIONAL MOMENT, BUT THE NEWS MEDIA DID NOT HUMILIATE HIM. IF THERE WAS, INDEED, HUMILIATION, HE BROUGHT IT ON HIMSELF. TV DID NOT CREATE HIS HUMILIATION. GEORGE H.W. BUSH HAS DANCED ON THE PUBLIC STAGE FOR VIRTUALLY ALL OF HIS ADULT LIFE, AND HE KNOWS FULL WELL THAT THE MEDIA (INCLUDING TV CAMERAS)WILL FOLLOW HIM. IF ISSUES OF AGE AND STABILITY PREVENT A CONTROLLED PRESENTATION, THEN HE SHOULD RESTRICT HIS PUBLIC APPEARANCES. ONE REPORT HAS IT THAT #41 AND BARBARA ARE NOT ENCOURAGING THEIR GRANDCHILDREN TO PURSUE CAREERS IN POLITICS. IF SO, HOW SAD FOR AMERICA AND THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE DOING THIS ONE GENERATION TOO LATE!

Thank God! I mute the commercials all the time! They're getting worse, louder, stupider, degrading! I could finally watch something worthwhile (your news report) without the remote in hand to constantly mute the TV. I greatly appreciate your efforts to 'clean-up' commercial TV and make the news something worth watching! Thanks so much Mr. Williams... you're one of our favorites

I have watched NBC Nightly news for years, won't watch any other 6:00 PM news that covers the world situation.You do an outstanding job. Let's see if you can't make it one hour long? and I really like the limited commercial breaks part, Outstanding job Brian. I simply love your news cast it is the most informative I have ever watched on TV anywhere, ever. I do hope you can continue with this limited commercial break deal it is reall refreshing. Thank you for a good idea.

As ususual leave it up to NBC to lead the way into a new direction of ad-free newscast. Keep up the good work!!!!

If you continue the limited comercial format, I would consider watching more often. As of now, I get most news via the Internet. Thanks for having the nerve to try something new. Watching the national news on other networks is often like viewing Pharmaceutical sales videos. Its just plain bad...

THIS IS FOR BRIAN AND ALL OF YOU WHO WORK SO HARD EVERY NIGHT TO GIVE US THE NEWS OF WORLD.I WOULD WATCH YOU IF THERE WERE COMMERICALS EVERYOTHER MINUTE. YOU HAVE A WAY OF JUST BEING SO DARN CALM AND GENERIOUS WITH YOUR DELIVERY OF THE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT WE MUST HEAR AND
WATCH. YOU ARE WONDERFUL AND I KNOW IT MUST BE VERY HARD
AT TIMES TO DO WHAT YOU MUST DO BUT, KNOW THIS THAT
THE MILLIONS THAT WATCH YOU JUST PLAIN LOVE YOU. YOU
MAKE ME SEE THE WAY THINGS ARE AND I LIKE THAT..
BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THRU THE HOLIDAYS AND ALWAYS
MERCEDES RUSSO

Many, many thanks for the limited interruption broadcast on Monday, Dec 4. And thanks also to Phillips for their sponsorship. This is what TV used to be like. And should be again. And Brian, keep up the good work for many years to come.

Keep up the limited commercial- we kept NBC on and did not turn back to our usual ABC. It's a valuable idea whose time has come!

I just heard about this little to not commercial news program on last night's program. When I heard it I couldn't believe my ears. I hate commercials and thinks it's a great idea. I wish all the networks would do this, with all the shows. Ha, ha, he, he, ha!

thank you for the news and make God bless you and yours family .

Kudos to the ad-free newscast! Now for the meat. On Thanksgiving Eve when you interviewed the Times-Picayune editor, you mentioned that soon you would be anchoring out of New Orleans. I'm going to hold you to that--I hope it will be soon and that it will be another ad-free newscast.

Because New Orleans and her problems aren't going away. Did you know that according to a New York Times article, work by the Corps of Engineers on New Orleans' levees has slowed? Repairs have been finished, but upgrading flood protection to above pre-Katrina levels should have begun months ago. Progress getting this done is essential to luring residents back--so the foot-dragging is ominous.

Did you know that according to a recent quality-of-life survey in Orleans and Jefferson parishes, 1/3 of the residents are considering leaving? Orleans residents say crime, government inaction, lack of available housing, and broken infrastructure are the biggest problems facing the parish and main reasons residents want to leave.

Did you know that 10's of thousands of Louisiana residents awaiting rebuilding grants from her Road Home program now have yet another bureaucratic nightmare looming--they may have to face the IRS?

Did you know there soon will be yet another roadblock to New Orleans' recovery? Louisiana's largest commercial insurer, according to the Times-Picayune, plans to cancel all New Orleans area policies next year--sparking fears that other insurance companies will follow suit?

Did you know that workers demolishing damaged houses in New Orleans found a body thought to be a Katrina victim, according to authorities? I recall that back in April you said in effect that NBC Nightly had a commitment to continue covering the ongoing story of Katrina as long as (among other things) bodies were still being found in the ruins. Sometime ago NBC Nightly covered the fact that pieces of bone and other human remains of 9/11 victims were still being found around Ground Zero. Why does the sensitivity, compassion, and caring seem to be lacking on the part of NBC Nightly to cover the fact that bodies are still being in Louisiana's Ground Zero?

Finally, did you know that according to a group that has put out a yearly report keeping tabs on which states are healthiest, Louisiana is the least healthy? The article I read didn't go into why, but I wonder how much aftereffects of Katrina and Rita had to do with her last-place showing. It did mention the fact that factors being studied included the environment people live and work in and access to and quality of health care. Since both had been thrown into upheaval when Louisiana's life was snapped in half by Katrina, I wouldn't be surprised if the storms--and government inaction following them--had been a factor. (Also, Mississippi, also having been struck by Katrina, had the second-worst showing, which makes me wonder how much Katrina's damage could have affected that state's standing.)

All of these are merely the tip of the iceberg. I am grateful for Martin Savidge's Sunday report on the mental ills in the wake of Katrina--but more coverage needs to be done. The mainstream media needs to renew a focus on the need for Gulf Coast recovery--because otherwise, it will stay on the back burner and the Bush Administration will allow Louisiana and Mississippi to do down the tubes. This must not be allowed to happen.

I WAS SICK YESTERDAY AND COULD NOT RESPOND TO YOUR MONDAY NIGHT NEWS. IWANTED YOU TO KNOW WHAT A GREAT RELIEF IT WAS TO BE ABLE WATCH THE NEWS MORE THAN THE COMMERCIALS.

Isn't NASA the biggest waste of government money ever? Who cares what's out there?! It is interesting at best, but so are the global warming phenomenon, health insurance and many other issues that don't get billions. It should be on the backburner until we have a balanced budget or surplus, heaven forbid.

I suggest you extend your Nightly News program to 45 minutes. There are too many issues being ignored every day.

I always enjoy the newscast - better with fewer ads though. Do you realize more died last week in the typhoon in the Philippines than in Katrina - damage total really still unknown. but it's droped from the news like a rock. does only America matter?

One word on last nights newcast.""GREAT"" More stories are what we want and not so many commercials. We get too many of them this time of year anyway. Nice job.

1 Hour Newscasts PLEASE 28 min Domestic, 28 min International with 1 60 sec ad at the start, 2 60 sec ad in the middle, and 1 60 sec ad at the end...this would be a good way to git ride of the stupid celeb shows that air from 7-8pm and allow our youth some more knowledge of what is going on in the world...!

My wife and I were not able to write until this evening. The Monday night newscast was wonderful. What a joy it was to keep the pace and rhythm of the news going with limited ads. It would be great to be able to bunch ads at one time early and/or late in the the half hour so the news could flow more freely and keep our attention. Some of us do still have long attention spans believe it or not. Some Americans actually watch, listen or read entire news articles, and even think about them too. Anyway, thanks for the trial. We hope the response is positive enough to try more of this in the future.

The information tonight on PPD was very informative. Thank God I did not experience this when our children were born and neither have my daughters, but my mother did. I remember how dibiltating it was for our entire family, but especially for her. I don't think the general public has an understanding of how devastating PPD can be. Thank you for putting the spotlight on this women's/family issue.

Perhaps the ads during the news could be done like soccer games, have the sponsors(') logo(s) in one corner of the screen for about 5 minutes, then switch to the next one. At the end thank the sponsor(s) for allowing you to present the news commercial-free.

Cultures from all ages have honored their heroes, especially military heroes, with medals, parades, even composing songs to celebrate their feats. (I'm reminded of the song, "Green Berets," from the Viet Nam era.)

Tonight on the broadcast you honored a ship, the USS Intrepid, which bore a huge poster, "Honor our Heroes." On the same broadcast Richard Engel revealed that suicide bombers are the heroes celebrated in the Lebanese refugee camp.

The broadcast honored a ship, but who are the human heroes we honor? Where are the American military heroes of the Iraq conflict we have honored? My wife and I cannot remember one of NBC's recent broadcasts (we don't see them all) when you have celebrated the bravery, courage, and goodness of our soldiers, the American fighting elite, without showing a funeral and a weeping mother or wife.

I know in my heart our young men and women have done many untold exploits for good in the Iraq conflict. How many civilians have our soldiers saved by their presence? How many have they protected from rape, not raped? How many suicide bombers have our soldiers prevented from detonating their message to innocent civilians in public places??? How many lives have been spared by the reengineering of Iraq's infrastructure? the hospitals, the power lines, the roads?

Have we made mistakes in miscalculating the Iraqi's ability to rule themselves and the violence of the radical Islamic mindset? Certainly! But to liberate a nation from a despot and turn them over to self-rule is something to celebrate!!!

What other nation than our own has even attempted or thought of such a thing? I feel deprived when NBC news does not help me celebrate the heroes of America. Yes, there are many kinds
of heroes who make life better all around us. My local TV station celebrates some of these. Will you please cover what they cannot???! It's still okay to stick your chest out and say, "I'm proud to be an American."

Our nation has conquered in order to liberate, not to oppress; to set free, not to enslave. What a noble goal!! What other nation would try to do that? Give the President credit for trying something no one else has dared to do. I'm proud to be an American and to support our humanitarian mission in Iraq!!!

Tonight (Tues) I taped the NBC Nightly News for my husband, editing out the commercials, and the counter on my VCR at the end read 20.39. I don't know if the counter is off, but that's a lot of commercial time, almost 10 minutes.

I really enjoyed your "limited interruption" newscast of the night before. However, you told us about this "limited interruption" newscast at every turn. It happened so often that it might as well have been a ....well, er....a commercial. I watch every night so it was well appreciated.

Thank you for your limited interruption news program on Monday, Dec. 4th. I've never sent in any messages to any media, but this idea is definitely worthy of praise and continuation. Hope your parent company and sponsors recognize the value of meeting the needs of the news-seeking public. Congratulations.