In a new ad from the Mitt Romney campaign, Tom Brokaw is featured giving a news report of the Newt Gingrich ethics investigations. Brokaw issued a statement that he was “extremely uncomfortable” that his previous reporting was being used for political gain.
From CNN:“The NBC legal department has written a letter to the [Romney] campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads. Similar requests have gone out to other campaigns that NBC says have inappropriately used clips from ‘Nightly News,’ ‘Meet the Press,’ ‘Today’ and MSNBC material.”
The Romney campaign has issued a statement saying “We just received the letter. We are reviewing it. But we believe it falls within fair use.”
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