On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric

[devils chaplain]

It’s the kind of accountability journalism that makes readers raise an eyebrow, if it doesn’t raise their blood pressure first. General Electric Co., reported the New York Times last week, earned $14.2 billion in worldwide profits last year, including $5.1 billion in the United States — and paid exactly zero dollars in federal taxes.

The front-page story drew widespread commentary in newspapers and on many Web sites. ABC News and Fox News, among others, were all over it.

But the story was conspicuously absent from the reportage of one news organization: NBC.

During its Friday broadcast, “NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams” had no time to mention that America’s largest corporation had essentially avoided paying federal taxes in 2010. Or its Saturday, Sunday or Monday broadcasts, either.

Did NBC’s silence have anything to do with the fact that one of its parent companies is General Electric?

Rest of the story here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/on-nbc-the-missing-story-about-parent-company-general-electric/2011/03/29/AFpRYJyB_story.html

[AndyTiedye]

1. Wouldn't Want to Annoy the Owners, Would They?

[devils chaplain]

2. I'm sure that had nothing to do with it...

... they just had so much other important news to cover than the rotten core of our taxation system that is bankrupting the country. Probably a cute girl somewhere went missing.

[upi402]

3. Nah, Charlie Sheen scratched his ass and Lohan spit on the street

Sooooo much ground to cover in soooo little time.
:sarcasm: