On Friday, June 29, 2012 1:24:41 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > TVNEWSER, following up on the post-Curry Today Show (apparently the intro > this morning deleted the names of the hosts in the introduction), included > the note that a story in the NYT today described in some detail an honorary > highlight reel that Today showed yesterday while saying goodby to Curry - > except of course that Today never showed any such highlight reel. A > spokesman says Today never planned to show such a reel, and never prepared > one. How then to explain the NYT story? > > > http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/today-show-moves-on-and-about-that-ann-curry-highlight-reel_b135713 > > "One more note: this egregious error in this morning’s *New York Times*. > TV critic *Alessandra Stanley* wrote about Curry’s final show, and > included this about a highlight reel, which never aired, not on the East > Coast or in any other version of the show: > > Highlight reels are the gold watch of television news, and “Today” showed > a long, affectionate one of Ms. Curry, from her first days in local news to > her trip to the South Pole, where she planted the NBC flag. It included > goofy moments clowning on the set, and also a tableau that seemed — under > the circumstances — somewhat insensitive. Ms. Curry, ebullient as ever, > leaned in to Mr. Lauer, who was wearing an arm sling. “Don’t come anywhere > near me with a hug,” he said, jokingly, but perhaps not entirely so. > > A “Today” spokesperson tells us there was no highlight reel, not even on > standby. For what it’s worth, the online > version<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/29/arts/television/ann-currys-tearful-goodbye-from-today.html?_r=1&ref=media>of > Stanley’s story already has two corrections." >
Gawker noted it too, in an article entitled "America's Wrongest Television Critic Strikes Again." Bottom line: It's true that there was no highlight reel on the show. How then, could Alessandra Stanley have stated that there was? "Probably because if you watch the relevant *Today* show segment<http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/tearful-ann-curry-tells-audience-she-is-leaving-as-today-co-host/>online, as opposed to, I don't know, *on television*, it autoplays the highlight reel from Curry's first day after the segment ends. This should be obvious to anyone watching carefully, though, since everyone is wearing different clothes and it's obviously an introductory, rather than a valedictory, segment." http://gawker.com/5922385/americas-wrongest-television-critic-strikes-again?tag=alessandra-stanley -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
