How NBC

by John Sendrey Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002 at 9:54 AM
jsendrey@uci.edu

Chuck Henry of NBC Local News explaining how NBC chooses its news items, how NBC counts protesters, how we should get informed. [222 seconds - WAV file]

audio: wav file (4.6 mebibytes)

Chuck Henry(CH): It' okay, it's okay.
Anonymous Interviewer 1(AI1): So you were saying that no corporation tells you what to report. Who does though?
CH: Nobody does.
Anonymous Interviewer 2: Then shouldn't it be the people.
CH: Yeah, what do you think, we don't have dogs that produce the news, we have people.
AI1: Who does, who decides?
CH: Well we have a producer, an executive producer, people like myself who do the reports. We all get together. We look at what's going on in the world today.
AI1: But you don't really look at what's going on in the world, you look at what Rooters sends you brother.
CH: No, no stop. We don't. We don't use Rooters. And Rooters happens to be Reuters. Okay?
AI1: Excuse me, but I'm saying...
CH: Okay. First of all we don't use Reuters.
AI1: Let me give you an example.
CH: No, no, no. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. I do a local newscast. Do you understand? Local, "L-O-C-A-L." Not national, local, Southern California.
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[rest of interview on WAV file]

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