Skip to content

Tag: Lester Holt

Police stand over David Sweat after he was shot and captured near the Canadian border Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Constable, N.Y.. AP Photo

Dateline NBC Provides Clue That Joyce Mitchell’s Dannemora Story Does Not Add Up

As the months go by, we’ll learn more about the big players in the Dannemora drama. For example, Dateline NBC steps up with accomplice Joyce Mitchell’s side of the story. This was the first time that the public has heard directly from one of the three main characters in the drama (escaped convicts David Sweat, Richard Matt, or confessed accomplice Mitchell) without having the filter of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s political operation and the intertwined New York State bureaucracy imposed upon the information.

uptown_lester_holt

NBC Nightly News Ratings Up Without Brian Williams

NBC News has to be ecstatic with the two-fer they pulled off by suspending the disgraced Brian Williams for six months. The suspension killed the media fury around Williams’ serial lies and Williams’ replacement, Lester Holt, has managed to hold

Now That We've Read Palin's Emails, How About Lauer's?

On Friday, June 10th, when 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s personal emails were released for public consumption, the mainstream media went crazy. Matt Lauer, Chris Matthews, and Lester Holt thought for sure Palin was going down. And just like I wrote